Being Mortal
Subtitle: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Edition: First Edition (9)
Publisher: Metropolitan Books; Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780805095159
Copyright date: 2014
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: The Independent Self
pagenum: 11; label: 2
title: Things Fall Apart
pagenum: 25; label: 3
title: Dependence
pagenum: 55; label: 4
title: Assistance
pagenum: 79; label: 5
title: A Better Life
pagenum: 111; label: 6
title: Letting Go
pagenum: 149; label: 7
title: Hard Conversations
pagenum: 191; label: 8
title: Courage
pagenum: 231; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 259; title: Notes on Sources
pagenum: 265; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 279