Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

ISBN-13: 9781846685828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str.

Atul Gawande

Opis

The international bestseller: an emotionally searing account of death, dying and medicine, from a member of President-elect Biden's new Covid-19 taskforce

Recenzje

An impassioned, broad-ranging and deeply personal exploration Guardian

O autorze

Atul Gawande is the author of three previous bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; and The Checklist Manifesto. His current book, Being Mortal, was a New York Times Bestseller. 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 2014, he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures. In his work in public health, he is director of Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health system innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organisation making surgery safer globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.