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When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi
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What makes a virtuous and meaningful life? Paul Kalanithi believed that the answer lay in medicine's most demanding specialization, neurosurgery. Here are patients at their life's most critical moment. Here he worked in the most critical place for human identity, the brain. What is it like to do that every day; and what happens when life is catastrophically interrupted? When Breath Becomes Airis an unforgettable reflection on the practice of medicine and the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. With a foreword by Dr Abraham Verghese and an epilogue by the author's wife, Lucy.

Book Details

ISBN13 9781847923677
ISBN10 1847923674
Series/Work OL17356252W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Bodley Head
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

2016 d-937 616.99/424 Attitude to death Bio026000 med000000 soc036000 Biografia Biografía Biographies Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Biography & autobiography / personal memoirs BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs Cancer Cáncer Cancer, patients, biography Cirujanos Cónyuges Death & Dying General Health Healthkalanithi, paul

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