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020			_a9781847923677
082			_a616.99424 _bKAL
100			_aKalanithi, Paul
245			_aWhen breath becomes air / _cPaul Kalanithi
260			_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c2016
300			_axix, 228 pages : illustration ; _c20 cm
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"--Publisher's website.
650			_aKalanithi, Paul -- Health. y.
650			_aLungs -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biograph
650			_aNeurosurgeons -- Biography.
700			_aVerghese, Abraham _eForwarded by
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999			_c1875 _d1875