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020 9781784701994
050 04 RC280.L8 |bK35 2016
100 1 Kalanithi, Paul
245 10 When breath becomes air /|cPaul Kalanithi.
260 London :|bVintage,|c2016
300 xix,225 p;|c20 cm.
500 Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2016.
505 0 Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect
health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by
Lucy Kalanithi.
520 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
650 0 Nervous system|xSurgery
650 0 Lungs |xCancer|xPatients|zUnited States
650 0 Physician and patient
650 0 Neurosurgeons
650 0 Lung Neoplasms
650 0 Patients