BEING MORTAL by GAWANDE,ATUL - 2014

Profile Books Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Wellcome Collection, 2014. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9781846685811

Paperback. Very Good.

London: Profile Books Ltd, 2014 Book. Very Good. Black Cloth Boards. 1st GB Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Account of the modern exoerience of mortality and the limits of medicine. 282pp. Gilt lettering to spine, dark blue endpapers. Slight forward lean to spine and minor bumping to spine and corners, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has slight edge and surface wear, otherwise very good..

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Wellcome Collection, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, BEING MORTAL lasserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end. An Amazon Best Book of the Month, October 2014: True or false: Modern medicine is a miracle that has transformed all of our lives. If you said "true," you'd be right, of course, but that's a statement that demands an asterisk, a "but." "We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine," writes Atul Gawande, a surgeon (at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston) and a writer (at the New Yorker). "We think. . .[it] is to ensure health and survival. But really. . .it is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive." Through interviews with doctors, stories from and… Read More