by João Lobo Antunes · GRADIVA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726624998
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«Um Modo de Ser» is the essay collection by João Lobo Antunes, published by Gradiva in paperback (203 pages, in Portuguese).
João Lobo Antunes, a neurosurgeon, brings together essays reflecting on the practice of medicine from a humanist philosophy: the teaching of ethics, clinical error, pain, and communication between doctor and patient, with Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich as a reference. It includes portraits of personalities who marked his career.
This edition is the 13th of the work, within Gradiva's Ciência aberta collection. João Lobo Antunes won the Pessoa Prize in 1996.
It appeals to health specialists and also to non-expert readers; it offers a way into medical ethics and a humanist vision of medicine.
