Kalanithi, Paul <br/><br/>
When breath becomes air 

 - London  The Bodley Head  2016 
 - xix, 228 p. 
<br/><br/> Description<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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?<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781847923677 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>United States<br/>Neurosurgeons<br/>Lungs--Cancer--Patients<br/>Husband and wife<br/>Physician and patient
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.99424  / KAL