When breath becomes air

Paul Kalanithi

Large print - 2016

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 making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air, which features a Foreword by Dr. Abraham Verghese and an Epilogue by Kalanithi's wife, Lucy, 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 young neurosurgeon at Stanford, guiding patients toward a deeper un...derstanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality.

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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning [2016]
Language
English
Main Author
Paul Kalanithi (author)
Edition
Large print edition
Physical Description
241 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781410487858
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