Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780805095159 (hardcover) :
- 0805095152 (hardcover)
- 362.17/5 23
- R726.8.G39 2014
- WB 310
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Course reserves | |
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Course Reserve | Janis P. Bellack Library Course Reserves | OT 763 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36349000025840 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277).
The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.
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