That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour (Record no. 297116)
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fixed length control field | 01527nam a22001457a 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9781472131331 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 610.92 PUR-G |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Sunita Puri |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Constable |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2019 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 301 p. ; 24 cm. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own was impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine and spirituality. Between days spent waiting for her mother, an anesthesiologist, to exit the OR, and evenings spent in conversation with her parents about their faith, Puri witnessed the tension between medicine's impulse to preserve life at all costs and a spiritual embrace of life's temporality. And it was that tension that eventually drew Puri, a passionate but unsatisfied medical student, to palliative medicine - a new specialty attempting to translate the border between medical intervention and quality-of-life care.Interweaving evocative stories of Puri's family and the patients she cares for, "That Good Night" is a stunning meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well, arming readers with information that will transform how we communicate with our doctors about what matters most to us. |
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Topical term or geographic name entry element | Puri, Sunita -- (MD) Women physicians -- United States -- Biography. East Indian American physicians -- Biography. |
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Koha item type | Book |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 28/06/2019 | 1 | 610.92 PUR-G | DCB3763 | 12/07/2019 | 12/07/2019 | 28/06/2019 | Book |