When breath becomes air
"At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student 'possessed, ' as he wrote, 'by the question of what, given that all organisms die, m…
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- Full title :When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.
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"At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student 'possessed, ' as he wrote, 'by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life' into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality"--Publisher's website.
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- Publication Date:©2016
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Random House
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
The Physical Object
- Description:xix, 228 pages : : illustration ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780812988406, 081298840X, 9780399590405, 0399590404
- oclc:ocn909925278
- LC Classification:RC280.L8
- Dewey Decimal:616.99/424
Table of Contents
Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi.
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