When Breath Becomes Air: What Makes Life Worth Living in the Face of Death?
by Kalanithi, Paul
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- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/Not Applicable
- ISBN 10
- 1784701998
- ISBN 13
- 9781784701994
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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
- Reading Habit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIOUSA621
- Title
- When Breath Becomes Air: What Makes Life Worth Living in the Face of Death?
- Author
- Kalanithi, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Applicable
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 1784701998
- ISBN 13
- 9781784701994
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Lung Cancer, Medical, Neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.