Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780805095159 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0805095152 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 282 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books : 2014.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Activities of daily living -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Hospice of the Northwest Library | ES GAWAN 2014 | 39955000011390 | End of Life - Spirituality | Not holdable | Available | - |
Hospice of the Northwest Library | ES GAWAN 2014 | 39955000011391 | End of Life - Spirituality | Not holdable | Available | - |
Hospice of the Northwest Library | ES GAWAN 2014 #5 | 39955000011379 | End of Life - Spirituality | Not holdable | Available | - |
Atul Gawande is the author of four 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.