When Breath Becomes Air Free Download

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Publisher: Random House
Genres: Memoirs Books, Sociology: Death & Dying, Neurosurgery Books, Neurosciences Books, Popular Medicine & Health, Coping With Illness, Coping With Death & Bereavement
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Pages: 256 pages
ISBN10: 1473523494
ISBN13: 9781473523494
Tags: Memoirs Books, Sociology: Death & Dying, Neurosurgery Books, Neurosciences Books, Popular Medicine & Health, Coping With Illness, Coping With Death & Bereavement, Free Download, PDF Download
Language: en
Physical Form: eBook
Type: PDF

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'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.

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