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020    9781784701994 
050 04 RC280.L8 |bK35 2016 
100 1  Kalanithi, Paul 
245 10 When breath becomes air /|cPaul Kalanithi. 
260    London :|bVintage,|c2016 
300    xix,225 p;|c20 cm. 
500    Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2016. 
505 0  Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect 
       health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by 
       Lucy Kalanithi. 
520    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 - 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 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 
650  0 Nervous system|xSurgery 
650  0 Lungs |xCancer|xPatients|zUnited States 
650  0 Physician and patient 
650  0 Neurosurgeons 
650  0 Lung Neoplasms 
650  0 Patients