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An edition of When Breath Becomes Air (2016)

When Breath Becomes Air

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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.

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Vintage
Language
English
Pages
256

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philosophy Neurosurgeons Cancer Lungs Husband and wife Patients Personal Memoirs Health Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY SOCIAL SCIENCES Death & Dying Biographies MEDICAL Lung Neoplasms Lung cancer patients SOCIAL SCIENCE General Husbands Biografia Pulmones Cónyuges Cirujanos Cáncer Pacientes Biografía Lungs, cancer Cancer, patients, biography Terminally ill, biography Surgeons, biography Physician and patient BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs MEDICAL / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-01-31 New York Times bestseller Terminally ill Kalanithi, paul Healthkalanithi, paul Attitude to death Lungs--cancer--patients Lungs--cancer--patients--united states--biography Neurosurgeons--biography Rc280.l8 k35 2016 2016 d-937 Wz 100 Wz 100 k14w 2016 616.99/424 Bio026000 med000000 soc036000

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Paul Kalanithi Lucy Kalanithi

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United States Arizona California New Haven CT Yale University Stanford University

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When Breath Becomes Air
2017, Vintage
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When Breath Becomes Air
2016, Random House
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El buen doctor
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2016, Random House
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2017
Copyright Date
2016

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Library of Congress
RD592.9

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Weight
181 grams

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OL26433754M
ISBN 10
1784701998
ISBN 13
9781784701994
OCLC/WorldCat
968339659
amazon.co.uk_asin
1784701998
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9781784701994
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1784701998
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29779231

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OL17356252W

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When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and illness, battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016.

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I knew with certainty that I would never be a doctor.
added by Lisa.

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