Kalanithi, Paul, <br/><br/>
When breath becomes air / 

 - xix, 228 pages :  20 cm 
<br/><br/>Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi. 
<br/><br/> 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 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781784701994 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Kalanithi, Paul--death.<br/>Kalanithi, Paul--health.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Lungs--cancer--patients--United States.<br/>Terminally ill--biography.<br/>Husband and wife.<br/>Neurosurgeons--United States--biography.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.99424  / KAW