Atul gawande
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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 dothe 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 waywellcome collection wellcome collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about healthit didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dicewellcome collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and deathwellcomecollectionorg see oxfam website for delivery information read moreso 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 wrongnever before has aging been such an important topicwellcome collection is part of wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over researchers and projects in more than 70 countriesthe ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death, but a good life - all the way to the very endinspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by henry wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and artpublished in partnership with the wellcome collectionoxfam shop arnold for most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibilitybut now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal
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' atul gawande, bestselling author of being mortalat the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, paul kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancerwhen breath becomes air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both** sunday times number one bestseller** 'rattling'a vital book about dyingone day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to liveoxfam bookshop hove in good conditionawe-inspiring and exquisiteobligatory reading for the living' nigella lawson see oxfam website for delivery information read morewhat makes life worth living in the face of death? what do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? what does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? paul kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us allwhen breath becomes air chronicles kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father
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Mainstreaming the northeast in india's look and act east policy by atul sarma (hardback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 9 to 11 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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