The Resource Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end, Atul Gawande, (large print)
Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end, Atul Gawande, (large print)
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The item Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end, Atul Gawande, (large print) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 437 pages
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Henry Holtt & Company, 2014
- Contents
-
- The independent self
- Things fall apart
- Dependence
- Assistance
- A better life
- Letting go
- Hard conversations
- Courage
- Isbn
- 9781410478122
- Label
- Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end
- Title
- Being mortal
- Title remainder
- medicine and what matters in the end
- Statement of responsibility
- Atul Gawande
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gawande, Atul
- Dewey number
- 616.02/9
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- R726.8
- LC item number
- .G39 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press Large Print Basic
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Terminal care
- Critical care medicine
- Aging
- Death
- Prognosis
- Quality of life
- Death
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end, Atul Gawande, (large print)
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Henry Holtt & Company, 2014
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-428)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage
- Control code
- ocn899228974
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 437 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410478122
- Lccn
- 2014048602
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- 362.175 G248B ; XX-NL/OR-NL ; LP ; [BG1516BT, #1, 12@31.99, es/RT ] ; [OR 4/19, 1@31.99, ES/CSS]
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)899228974
- Label
- Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end, Atul Gawande, (large print)
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Henry Holtt & Company, 2014
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-428)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage
- Control code
- ocn899228974
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 437 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410478122
- Lccn
- 2014048602
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- 362.175 G248B ; XX-NL/OR-NL ; LP ; [BG1516BT, #1, 12@31.99, es/RT ] ; [OR 4/19, 1@31.99, ES/CSS]
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)899228974
Subject
- Death -- Attitudes
- Large type books
- Large type books
- Prognosis
- Quality of life
- Terminal care
- Aging -- Physiological aspects
- Critical care medicine
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- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Science
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Health
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