When breath becomes air /
Kalanithi, Paul,
When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi; foreword by Abraham Verghese. - xix, 228 pages ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2016.
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.
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.
9781784701994 (paperback)
GBB6F2230 bnb
018094324 Uk
Kalanithi, Paul--Career in medicine.
Kalanithi, Paul--Health.
Nervous system--Surgery.
Lungs--Cancer--Patients--United States.
Physician and patient.
When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi; foreword by Abraham Verghese. - xix, 228 pages ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2016.
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.
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.
9781784701994 (paperback)
GBB6F2230 bnb
018094324 Uk
Kalanithi, Paul--Career in medicine.
Kalanithi, Paul--Health.
Nervous system--Surgery.
Lungs--Cancer--Patients--United States.
Physician and patient.