Being Mortal
About this book
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains Gawande's reflections and personal stories. He suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival. Being Mortal has won awards, appeared on lists of best books, and been featured in a documentary.
Subjects
- 362.17/5
- activities of daily living
- aged
- aging
- aging--physiological aspects
- aging--physiology
- aspect physiologique
- attitude (psychology)
- attitudes
- attitude to death
- conduct of life
- critical care
- critical care medicine
- death
- death & dying
- death, psychological aspects
- diagnosis
- dying
- elderly
- family and relationships
- geriatrics
- krankenpflege
- large type books
- lebensverlängerung
- lin zhong guan huai xue
- medical ethics
- medical / terminal care
- medicine
- mort
- mortality
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2014-10-26
- older people
- palliative treatment
- physiological aspects
- physiology
- prognosis
- pronostics (pathologie)
- qualité de la vie
- quality of life
- r726.8 .g39 2014
- social science
- soins en phase terminale
- soins intensifs
- sterbebegleitung
- sterben
- terminal care
- vieillissement
- wb 310