Screen LibraryWhen breath becomes air /
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's tra...
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Vintage,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: |
2017. ©2016 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. |
| Item Description: | Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2016. |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 228 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781784701994 1784701998 |
| Index Number: | RC280 |
| CLC: |
R730.5 K837.126.2 |
| Call Number: | K837.126.2/K141-1 |
| Contents: | Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi. |