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.
Genres
- dying
- geriatrics
- medicine
- Activities of Daily Living
- Conduct of life
- Attitude to Death
- Critical care medicine
- Terminal care
- Diagnosis
- Attitude (Psychology)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Elderly
- Aged
- Physiology
- Death & Dying
- Physiological aspects
- Aging
- Death
- Quality of Life
- Prognosis
- Palliative treatment
- Medical ethics
- Older people
- Death, psychological aspects
- Attitudes
- Large type books
- MEDICAL / Terminal Care
- nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2014-10-26
- New York Times bestseller
- New York Times reviewed
- Mortality
- Family and Relationships
- Sterben
- Sterbebegleitung
- Krankenpflege
- Lebensverlängerung
- Aging--physiology
- Aging--physiological aspects
- R726.8 .g39 2014
- Wb 310
- 362.17/5
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