When breath becomes air /
Published by : The Bodley Head, (London :) Physical details: xix, 228 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. ISBN:9781847923677.| Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Paro College Library | NF 616.99424 KAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | E17974 | Available | E17974 | |
| Paro College Library | NF 616.99424 KAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | E17975 | Available | E17975 | |
| Paro College Library | NF 616.99424 KAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | E 15956 | Available | *28195* |
"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 treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student 'possessed, ' as he wrote, 'by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life' 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"-
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