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When Breath Becomes Air

The Ultimate Moving Life-And-Death Story

by Paul Kalanithi
language: english
Publisher: Vintage Publishing, January of 2017 ‧
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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.

When Breath Becomes Air

The Ultimate Moving Life-And-Death Story

by Paul Kalanithi

Property Description
ISBN: 9781784701994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Release Date: January of 2017
Language: English
Dimensions: 128 x 199 x 15 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 256
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Memories and Testimonies
EAN: 9781784701994

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Kalanithi

Paul Kalanithi foi um neurocirurgião e autor (1977-2015). Licenciado em Literatura Inglesa e Biologia, obteve também um Mestrado em Literatura Inglesa em Stanford. Recebeu o grau de mestre em Filosofia da Ciência e Medicina na Universidade de Cambridge e formou-se cum laude na Faculdade de Medicina de Yale, onde foi aceite na sociedade de honra médica nacional Alpha Omega Alpha. Regressou a Stanford para concluir a sua residência em Neurocirurgia e um pós-doutoramento em Neurociência. Recebeu o prémio mais conceituado da Academia Americana de Cirurgia Neurológica para investigação residente. Após um diagnóstico de cancro terminal, faleceu em março de 2015.

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