When Breath Becomes Air
**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? 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. 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. 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson
| Autor: | Kalanithi, Paul |
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| EAN: | 9781529110944 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | Random House UK Ltd |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.01.2019 |
| Schlagworte: | Thanatos Tod Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Naturwissenschaften) Neurowissenschaft |
| Größe: | 17 × 111 × 185 |
| Gewicht: | 142 g |
