作者:
Atul Gawande 出版社: Metropolitan Books 副标题: Medicine and What Matters in the End 出版年: 2014-10-7 页数: 304 定价: USD 26.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780805095159
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
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 freq...
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
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.
Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
I like the directness in the way the author talks about being dying. The key takeaway from the book is the question on what it means to have a finite life.
At first a random read (picked up from some booklist). Then I thought of my grandpa, and it's like I should prepare my family for what's to come. It's bitter but at the end of the grief it's peace and...At first a random read (picked up from some booklist). Then I thought of my grandpa, and it's like I should prepare my family for what's to come. It's bitter but at the end of the grief it's peace and relief.(展开)
说到年老，我总是想到两句话： 1. 每个人都知道自己要死。但并不是每个人都“真的”知道自己要死。 2. No country for old men. 本书看了一半。基本上，对这两句话的认识，在我这里，都大大加深了。 仅仅是几个月前，我才突然领悟“天凉好个秋”是种怎样的况味，从而第一次“真...
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4 有用 沁云 2016-11-20 10:09:46
前面讲美国养老现状的章节有点啰嗦，从第六章开始特别好看起来，因为终于谈到了我期待读到的生命伦理和医学伦理问题。作者以外科医生身份与病人进行对话和以儿子身份与癌症晚期的父亲谈论治疗方案、生死抉择的情景都很具有参考意义。而本书的价值在于：帮读者认清医学的有限性，鼓励人们在面对生命终结时选择对自己最有意义的与衰老/疾病相伴的方式。
1 有用 zhifeige 2015-10-31 12:43:24
I like the directness in the way the author talks about being dying. The key takeaway from the book is the question on what it means to have a finite life.
1 有用 花岛仙藏 2015-10-06 09:06:42
At first a random read (picked up from some booklist). Then I thought of my grandpa, and it's like I should prepare my family for what's to come. It's bitter but at the end of the grief it's peace and... At first a random read (picked up from some booklist). Then I thought of my grandpa, and it's like I should prepare my family for what's to come. It's bitter but at the end of the grief it's peace and relief. (展开)
4 有用 rosemary 2015-01-05 16:10:37
如何理解思考，如何面对死亡在现代医学科技越来越发达的今天是个值得探讨的问题。这种类型的书大部分是在解释现象，提出解决办法的部分却太少了。
5 有用 Cherish 2016-06-02 20:28:06
这是一本特别好的书，主要从两方面阐述了疾病与衰老。一方面是社会外部对待老人病人的态度与方式。从poorhouse进化到nursing home到assisted living，从在家养老变成机构养老。另一方面是老人病人以及他们的家人面的死亡的主观态度，究竟是要进全力延长生病还是在有限的时间内提高生命质量。非常值得人思考，奇葩说最近讨论过相关辩题，正反方的大部分观点这本书中其实都有涉及。作者作为一个... 这是一本特别好的书，主要从两方面阐述了疾病与衰老。一方面是社会外部对待老人病人的态度与方式。从poorhouse进化到nursing home到assisted living，从在家养老变成机构养老。另一方面是老人病人以及他们的家人面的死亡的主观态度，究竟是要进全力延长生病还是在有限的时间内提高生命质量。非常值得人思考，奇葩说最近讨论过相关辩题，正反方的大部分观点这本书中其实都有涉及。作者作为一个印度 裔的美国医生，了解不同文化的养老传统，自己同样为医生的父亲也经历了癌症病人所需要做的一系列艰难抉择，有这样的背景所以作者能如此完整的呈现这个主题 (展开)