Study Guide: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 34-page guide for “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End” by Atul Gawande includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 8 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Mortality and Courage and Risk-Taking.

38 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 3, 2019

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