When breath becomes air
Author
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Books
Physical Description
xix, 228 pages ; 19 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House, 2016.
Summary
"At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. 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, the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated. With incredible literary quality, philosophical acuity, and medical authority, When Breath Becomes Air approaches the questions raised by facing mortality from the dual perspective of the neurosurgeon who spent a decade meeting patients in the twilight between life and death, and the terminally ill patient who suddenly found himself living in that liminality. At the base of Paul's inquiry are essential questions, such as: What makes life worth living in the face of death? What happens when the future, instead of being a ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present? When faced with a terminal diagnosis, what does it mean to have a child, to nuture a new life as another one fades away? As Paul wrote, "Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn't really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live." Paul Kalanithi passed away in March 2015, while working on this book"--
Electronic Access
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Call Number
BIOG/KALANITHI
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780812988406
When breath becomes air
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
241 pages : (large print) ; 23 cm
Edition
Large print edition.
Production / Publication Information
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2016]
Call Number
LP/BIOG/KALANITHI
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9781410487858
When breath becomes air
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
5 audio discs (approximately 5 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, [2016]
Summary
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 understanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality.
Call Number
CD/BIOG/KALANITHI
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780399566189 9781524708146
by
Kalanithi, Paul
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eAudiobook
Electronic Format:
LIBBY AUDIOBOOK, MP3
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Libby
by
Kalanithi, Paul
Format:
eBook
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HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
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Libby
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