When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.
Record details
- ISBN: 081298840X (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780812988406 (hardback)
- ISBN: 081298840X : HRD
- ISBN: 9780812988406 (hardback)
- ISBN: 081298840X (hardback)
- Physical Description: xix, 228 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi. |
Summary, etc.: | "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"--Publisher's website. |
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Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at John P. Webster Library - West Hartford.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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John P. Webster Library - West Hartford | RC 280 .L8 K35 2016 (Text) | 32545070256223 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |