When Breath Becomes Air
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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade of 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 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.
Author:
Author:Kalanithi Paul
Cover:
Cover:soft
Category:
- Category:Medical Books
- Category:Religion & Spiritually
Dimensions:
Dimensions:17.7x11x1.4 cm
ISBN:
ISBN:9781529110944
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