That Good Night
Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
$57.28
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2019
Summary
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 temporalit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472131331 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472131339 |
| Author: | Sunita Puri |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 154mm x 26mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Spiritually grounded, poetic, and brilliant … Puri has claimed her place in the ranks of illustrious physician-writers - Katy Butler, author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door
This is a powerful memoir, which Puri narrates with honesty, poise, and empathy - Publishers WeeklyMoving memoir … an impressive debut … A profound meditation on a problem many of us will face; worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal - KirkusAbout The Author
Sunita Puri
Sunita Puri is an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the University of Southern California, and medical director of palliative medicine at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center. She has published essays in The New York Times, Slate, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and JAMA-Internal Medicine. She lives in Los Angeles.
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