When Breath Becomes Air (Record no. 37849)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781784701994
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency KIS International School
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Item number NF 617.48 K
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Personal name Kalanithi, Paul
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title When Breath Becomes Air
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Remainder of edition statement Paperback
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc The Bodley Head,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2016.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xix, 228 p. :
Dimensions 21 cm.
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 naive 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.
"Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable". (New York Times). At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Nervous system -- Surgery.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Lung Neoplasms.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Surgeons - Autobiography.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cancer -- Patients.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Health and Wellbeing.
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Koha item type SS Nonfiction
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2018-10-12Secondary2023-01-30 2018-10-12 SS Nonfiction  443.002021-06-11Book5 S138465555SecondaryNF 617.48 K