Author: PAUL KALANITHI
Title: When Breath Becomes Air
Description: Random House US. Paperback. Pp: 300. 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.Unmissable' New York TimesAt 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. ISBN: 9780399590405. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780399590405
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Title: When Breath Becomes Air
Description: Random House US. Paperback. Pp: 300. 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.Unmissable' New York TimesAt 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. ISBN: 9780399590405. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780399590405
Price: EUR 7.00 = appr. US$ 7.61 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 987801
- Book number: 987801
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