TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kalanithi,Paul
AU  - Verghese,A.
TI  - When breath becomes air
SN  - 9781784701994
U1  - 616.99424 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London, England
PB  - Vintage, Penguin Random House
KW  - Kalanithi, Paul
KW  - Lungs
KW  - cancer
KW  - patients
KW  - United States
KW  - NGU-sh
KW  - Terminally ill
KW  - biography
KW  - Husband and wife
KW  - Neurosurgeons
N1  - Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi
N2  - 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
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