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When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating RC280.L8 K35 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalanithi, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kalanithi, Paul--Health.
- Kalanithi, Paul.
- Lungs--Cancer--Patients--United States--Biography.
- Lungs.
- Lungs--Cancer--Patients.
- Married people.
- Neurosurgeons.
- United States.
- Neurosurgeons--Biography.
- Married people--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 228 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Summary:
- On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Kalanithi chronicles his transformation from a naive medicalstudent 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.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Abraham Verghese
- Prologue
- In perfect health I begin
- Cease not till death
- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Shober Family Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780812988406
- 081298840X
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