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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. 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
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When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
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- Année de publication
- 2016
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Paul Kalanithi
- Éditeur
- The Bodley Head
- Publié
- 2016
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1847923674
- ISBN13
- 9781847923677
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Santé & Médecine, Médecine, Thématique philosophique, Amour, Philosophie, Littérature contemporaine, Autobiographies et mémoires, Santé, États-Unis, Mort, Médecine, Vie, Maladies, Deuil, Destin, Cancer, tumeurs, Milieu médical, Mortalité
- Première publication
- 2016
- Titre original
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Évaluation
- 4,35 sur 5
- Description
- 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