Open AccessReview of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Gawande
Author(s) -
Caleb Berkemeier
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
canadian journal of disability studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-9192
DOI - 10.15353/cjds.v4i3.234
Subject(s) - event (particle physics) , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics
The experience of death and dying has become an event that happens within the confines of the hospital and nursing home. Gawande refers to this fact as an “experiment of making mortality a medical experience” (9), and he is writing this book to expose how the experiment is failing.