Books Sandwiched In Returns 

Tuesday, March 17, 12:12-12:52pm

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Happens in the End by Atul Gawande

Bring your lunch, or stop by Tim Hortons in the library.

 

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine may run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Gawande argues that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families and offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly to a rich and dignified end of life.

 Reviewed by Timothy Quill, MD, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry & Medical Humanities, U of R School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Director of the Center for Ethics, Humanities & Palliative Care.

Rochester Reads 2015

Thursday, March 19, 12-2pm

Reading and Book Signing by the author

Kate Gleason Auditorium, Central Library

 

Come meet the author of this year's community read, offered with Writers & Books.

 

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life.