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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
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When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Paul Kalanithi
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1847923674
- ISBN13
- 9781847923677
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, True Stories, Biographies, Health & Medicine, Medicine, Philosophical Topics, Love, Philosophy, Contemporary Fiction, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Health, USA, Death, Medicine, Life, Diseases, Mourning, Fate, Cancer, Tumors, Medical environment, Mortality
- First published
- 2016
- Original title
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- 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