Bibliograph

When breath becomes air, Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese

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When breath becomes air, Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

When breath becomes air

Oclc number

909925278

Responsibility statement

Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese

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

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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