When breath becomes air
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Author:
Contributors:
Verghese, Abraham, author.
Published:
New York : Random House, 2016.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
xix, 228 pages ; 20 cm
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Description
"At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’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 Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” 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 mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir."--
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ISBN:
9780812988406, 081298840X
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"At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’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 Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” 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 mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Kalanithi, P., & Verghese, A. (2016). When breath becomes air. First edition. Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kalanithi, Paul and Abraham, Verghese. 2016. When Breath Becomes Air. Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kalanithi, Paul and Abraham, Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air. Random House, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kalanithi, Paul, and Abraham Verghese. When Breath Becomes Air. First edition. Random House, 2016.
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