When Breath Becomes Air (Record no. 1431240)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250530123444.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781847923677 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | CSL |
| Transcribing agency | CSL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Source of code | eng |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | O_,3N77,W Q6 |
| Assigning agency | CSL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kalanithi , Paul |
| Relator term | author. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 811131 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | When Breath Becomes Air |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Sonipat: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Bodley head, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xix, 228p. |
| Other physical details | : ill. |
| Dimensions | ; 20 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes foreword and acknowledgement |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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.<br/>What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Autobiographies |
| Form subdivision | Lung Cancer—Patients—United States—Biography |
| General subdivision | Neurosurgeons—United States—Biography |
| Chronological subdivision | Death—Psychological aspects |
| 9 (RLIN) | 811132 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Colon Classification (CC) |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Classification part | O_,3N77,W Q6 |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Colon Classification (CC) | Central Science Library | Central Science Library | 2025-03-05 | N R Book Distributors | O_,3N77,W Q6 | SL1656339 | 2025-05-30 | 2025-05-30 | General Books |