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100			_aKalanithi , Paul _eauthor. _9811131
245			_aWhen Breath Becomes Air
260			_aSonipat: _bBodley head, _c2016.
300			_axix, 228p. _b: ill. _c; 20 cm.
500			_aIncludes foreword and acknowledgement
520			_aAt 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. 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			_aAutobiographies _vLung Cancer—Patients—United States—Biography _xNeurosurgeons—United States—Biography _yDeath—Psychological aspects _9811132
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