When breath becomes air
Kalanithi, Paul
When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese. - New York : Random House , 2016 - 228 pages ; 20 cm
A profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? 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.
English.
9780812988406
Kalanithi, Paul---Health
Lungs---Cancer---Patients---Biography
Neurosurgeons ----Biography
Husband and wife
RC280.L8 / K35 2016b
92 KAL
When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese. - New York : Random House , 2016 - 228 pages ; 20 cm
A profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? 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.
English.
9780812988406
Kalanithi, Paul---Health
Lungs---Cancer---Patients---Biography
Neurosurgeons ----Biography
Husband and wife
RC280.L8 / K35 2016b
92 KAL
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