Book
Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande.
Record details
- ISBN: 0805095152 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780805095159 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0805095152 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780805095159 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0805095152 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 282 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Activities of daily living -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage. Activities of daily living -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage. Introduction -- The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage -- Epilogue. |
| Summary, etc.: | Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Terminal care. Critical care medicine. Aging > Physiological aspects. Quality of life. Death. |
Available copies
- 74 of 81 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 11 of 11 copies available at John P. Webster Library - West Hartford.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 81 total copies.
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