Being Mortal：Medicine and What Matters in the End

作者: Atul Gawande

出版社: Macmillan

出版时间: 2014-10

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780805095159

装帧: 精装

开本: 16开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 282页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>哲学心理学

In "Being Mortal," bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending 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 of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, "Being Mortal" asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end. Atul Gawande is author of three bestselling books: "Complications," a finalist for the National Book Award; "Better," selected by Amazon as one of the ten best books of 2007; and "The Checklist Manifesto." His latest book is "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End." 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 Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts. Society & Culture: GeneralSociology: Death & DyingPublic Health & Preventive MedicineHealth Systems & ServicesMedicolegal IssuesTerminal Care Nursing
内容简介:
In "Being Mortal," bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending 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 of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, "Being Mortal" asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
作者简介:
Atul Gawande is author of three bestselling books: "Complications," a finalist for the National Book Award; "Better," selected by Amazon as one of the ten best books of 2007; and "The Checklist Manifesto." His latest book is "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End." 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 Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.
目录:
Society & Culture: GeneralSociology: Death & DyingPublic Health & Preventive MedicineHealth Systems & ServicesMedicolegal IssuesTerminal Care Nursing

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