| Record Number |
801764 |
| ISBN |
9781473546523 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
| Author |
Kalanithi, Paul author. |
| Title |
When breath becomes air [electronic resource] / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Random House, 2016 |
| Contents note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| Performer note |
Read by Cassandra Campbell and Sunil Malhotra. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject - Name |
Kalanithi, Paul |
| Subject |
Lungs -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography |
| Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography |
| Husband and wife -- United States |
| Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography |
| Mortality |
| Audiobooks. |
| Added Author |
Verghese, Abraham, 1955- author. |
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