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When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi
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  • 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 in search of 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 ia 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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    Nonfiction
  • ISBN: 1785414747
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