Will Self
Will Self is a writer whose fiction includes the short-story collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity (which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), and novels such as How the Dead Live, Cock and Bull and Umbrella. His non-fiction includes Perfidious Man, featuring photographs by David Gamble, and collections of his journalism such as Junk Mail and Feeding Frenzy. He is a regular broadcaster on television and radio, and his most recent novel is Shark.
Videos
Atul Gawande and Will Self discuss Being Mortal at 5x15
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Being Mortal examines the limitations and failures of medicine