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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | xix, 228 pages : illustration ; 20 cm |
| Awards: | PEN Award, Creative Nonfiction, 2017. |
| ISBN: | 9780812988406 081298840X 9780399590405 0399590404 |