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Tag: medicine
Let’s talk about Atul Gawande’s BEING MORTAL
In BEING MORTAL, our most thoughtful and thought-provoking surgeon Atul Gawande argues that contemporary medicine can do a better, more humane job of managing death and dying by comforting and enhancing our experience, providing not only a good life but also a good end. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, the bestselling author of […]
Spotlight: ON IMMUNITY
If you love fascinating non-fiction, have we got a timely story for you: ON IMMUNITY, National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Eula Biss’s investigation about why we fear vaccines. As a new mother, Biss grew fearful of the government and medicine, ultimately realizing that she cannot immunize her child, or herself, from the world. In order to […]