Review of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Gawande

Authors

  • Caleb Berkemeier Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Kent State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v4i3.234

Keywords:

disability, death, mortality, healthcare

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

Caleb Berkemeier, Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Kent State University

Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Kent State University

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How to Cite

Berkemeier, C. (2015). Review of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Gawande. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 4(3), 127–133. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v4i3.234

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 3 (2015)

Section

Reviews

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