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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?. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times 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 u the brain u and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when 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.

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Publisher
Vintage Publishing, The Bodley Head Ltd
ISBN-10
1847923674
ISBN-13
9781847923677
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221373314

Product Key Features

Book Title
When Breath Becomes Air
Author
Paul Kalanithi
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback, Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Medicine, Memorials, Surgery, Autobiography: General, Biology, Coping with Illness
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Item Height
204mm
Item Width
138mm
Item Weight
376g

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
London
Title_Author
Paul Kalanithi
Prizes
Shortlisted for Pulitzer Prize Biography Category 2017 and Waterstones Book of the Year 2016.
Author Biography
PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in English literature, human biology, and history and philoso-phy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received the American Academy of Neu-rological Surgery's highest award for research. His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review Daily.Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.
Date of Publication
04/02/2016
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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