When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1847923674
- ISBN 13
- 9781847923677
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- All Booked (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007707
- Title
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Author
- Paul Kalanithi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1847923674
- ISBN 13
- 9781847923677
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- biography medicine doctor neurosurgeon
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Memoirs; Medical;
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