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AUTHOR |
Kalanithi, Paul. |
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TITLE |
When breath becomes air / Kalanithi, Paul. |
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IMPRINT |
New York : Random House, 2016. |
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DESCRIPTION |
xix, 228 p. ; 20 cm. |
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SUMMARY |
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decadeˇ¦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 Kalanithiˇ¦s transformation from a naive medical student ˇ§possessed,ˇ¨ as he wrote, ˇ§by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful lifeˇ¨ 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 mortalityˇKˇKˇK. |
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SUBJECT |
Husband and wife. |
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SUBJECT |
Kalanithi, Paul --?Health. |
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Lungs --?Cancer --?Patients --?United States --?Biography. |
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Married people --?Biography. |
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Neurosurgeons --?Biography. |
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Terminally ill --?Biography. |
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DISCIPLINE |
English Language. |
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DISCIPLINE |
Library. |
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ISBN |
9781984801821. |
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