When breath becomes air
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and...
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Random House Audio : Books on Tape,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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| Summary: | At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air, which features a Foreword by Dr. Abraham Verghese and an Epilogue by Kalanithi's wife, Lucy, chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naìˆve medical student 'possessed, ' as he wrote, 'by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life' into a young neurosurgeon at Stanford, guiding patients toward a deeper understanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality. |
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| Item Description: | Compact discs. |
| Physical Description: | 5 audio discs (5 1/2 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: | 9780399566189 039956618X 9781524708146 1524708143 |
