Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
| AUTHOR | Gawande, Atul |
| PUBLISHER | Metropolitan Books (10/07/2014) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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ISBN-13:
9780805095159
ISBN-10:
0805095152
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
304
Carton Quantity:
20
Product Dimensions:
5.80 x 1.20 x 8.30 inches
Weight:
0.85 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Dust Cover,
Price on Product,
Table of Contents,
Deckle Edges
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Medical | Terminal Care
Medical | Death & Dying
Medical | Health Policy
Dewey Decimal:
362.175
Library of Congress Control Number:
2014017442
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Author:
Gawande, Atul
Atul Gawande is author of three 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 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.
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