Buchdetails
Format
E-Book
Seiten
256
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Feb 4, 2016
Verlag
The Bodley Head
Beschreibung
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN: 1473523494 (ISBN13: 9781473523494)
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.
Source: penguin.co.uk
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.
Source: penguin.co.uk
Genres
Romantik
Kinder
Biografie
Autobiografie & Memoiren
Wirtschaft & Finanzen
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No one should ever feel like they need to read this, but believe me, this is a book everyone must read. This book will tear you apart piece by piece with surgical precision, but Paul Kalanithi will give you an outlook into death as never before and thus provide you a guide on how to live life.
January 18th 2020