Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End
(Sprache: Englisch)
In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines its ultimate limitations and failures - in his own practices as well as others' - as life draws to a close. Riveting,...
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In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines its ultimate limitations and failures - in his own practices as well as others' - as life draws to a close. Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life - all the way to the very end.
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Die Medizin scheint über Krankheit und Tod zu triumphieren, doch sterben wir so trostlos wie nie zuvor. Der Bestsellerautor und renommierte Arzt Atul Gawande schreibt in seinem beeindruckenden Buch über das, was am Ende unseres Lebens wirklich zählt. Ungewöhnlich offen spricht er darüber, was es bedeutet, alt zu werden, wie man mit Gebrechen und Krankheiten umgehen kann und was wir an unserem System ändern müssen, um unser Leben würdevoll zu Ende zu bringen. Ein mutiges und weises Buch eines großartigen Autors, voller Geschichten und eigener Erfahrungen, das uns hilft, die Geschichte unseres Lebens gut zu Ende zu erzählen.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Being Mortal “
Introduction 11 ¿ The Independent Self 11
2 ¿ Things Fall Apart 25
3 ¿ Dependence 55
4 ¿ Assistance 79
5 ¿ A Better Life 111
6 ¿ Letting Go 149
7 ¿ Hard Conversations 191
8 ¿ Courage 231
Epilogue 259
Notes on Sources 265
Acknowledgments 279
Autoren-Porträt von Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande is the author of several bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better; The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Founder and Chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chair of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018-2020. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Atul Gawande
- 2017, 304 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 14,2 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1250076226
- ISBN-13: 9781250076229
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.05.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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