Bibliograph

When breath becomes air, Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese

Type

Label

When breath becomes air, Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

When breath becomes air

Oclc number

909925278

Responsibility statement

Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese

Summary

On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Kalanithi chronicles his transformation from a naïve medical student 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

Table Of Contents

Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi

Target audience

specialized

Classification