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Being Mortal

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Being Mortal

By Atul Gawande

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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 wro...Show more

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ISBN

9781846685828

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2015

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Being Mortal

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