When breath becomes air
Title
:
When breath becomes air
Author
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Kalanithi, Paul, author.
ISBN
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9780399566189
9781524708146
Edition
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Unabridged.
Physical Description
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5 audio discs (approximately 5 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note
:
Title from container.
Compact discs.
Personal Subject
:
Kalanithi, Paul.
Subject Term
:
Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Lungs -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography.
Death.
Genre
:
Audiobooks
Autobiographies
Added Author
:
Verghese, Abraham, 1955-
Malhotra, Sunil
Campbell, Cassandra
Local Subject
:
Spoken compact disc collection.
Summary
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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 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 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.
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Bayport Public Library | SCD 921 KALANITHI 5 DISCS | Audiobooks Nonfiction |
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | SCD 921 KALANITHI 5 DISCS | Audiobooks Nonfiction |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | SCD 921 KALANITHI 5 DISCS | Audiobooks Nonfiction |
Stillwater Public Library | SCD 921 KALANITHI 5 DISCS | Audiobooks Nonfiction |