Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End + Yapışkanlı Not Kağıdı

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'GAWANDE'S MOST POWERFUL, AND MOVING, BOOK' MALCOLM GLADWELL 'BEING MORTAL IS NOT ONLY WISE AND DEEPLY MOVING; IT IS AN ESSENTIAL AND INSIGHTFUL BOOK FOR OUR TIMES' OLIVER SACKS For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility.; It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice.; But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal.; So here is a book about the modern experience of mortality - about what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't, where our ideas about death have gone wrong.; With his trademark mix of perceptiveness and sensitivity, Atul Gawande outlines a story that crosses the globe, as he examines his experiences as a surgeon and those of his patients and family, and learns to accept the limits of what he can do.; Never before has aging been such an important topic.; The systems that we have put in place to manage our mortality are manifestly failing; but, as Gawande reveals, it doesn't have to be this way.; The ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death, but a good life - all the way to the very end.; Daha fazla göster