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When Breath Becomes Air Hardcover - 2016 - 1st Edition

by Paul Kalanithi; Foreword by Abraham Verghese


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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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  • Title When Breath Becomes Air
  • Author Paul Kalanithi; Foreword by Abraham Verghese
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House, New York
  • Date 2016-01-12
  • ISBN 9780812988406 / 081298840X
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 5.4 x 1 in (19.05 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Library of Congress subjects Husband and wife, Spouses - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015023815
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/2015, Page 7
  • Entertainment Weekly, 01/22/2016, Page 72
  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2015, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 02/14/2016, Page 16
  • People Weekly, 01/25/2016, Page 68
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/02/2015, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 01/26/2016, Page 0

About the author

Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgeon and writer. He grew up in Kingman, Arizona, and graduated from Stanford University with a BA and MA in English literature and a BA in human biology. He earned an MPhil in history and philosophy of science and medicine from the University of Cambridge and graduated cum laude from the Yale School of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society. He returned to Stanford to complete his residency training in neurological surgery and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience, during which he received the American Academy of Neurological Surgery's highest award for research. He died in March 2015. He is survived by his large, loving family, including his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.
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