Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

304 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir science sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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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 o...

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