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When Breath Becomes Air

Name: When Breath Becomes Air
SKU: 9781529110944
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By (author) Paul Kalanithi,

€12.60

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?

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ISBN: 9781529110944

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 256

Dimensions: 11.1 × 1.6 × 17.7 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 256 pages
Dimensions 11.1 × 1.6 × 17.7 cm | 143
Publication Date 31 December 2018
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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Paul Kalanithi

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PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in English literature, human biology, and history and philoso phy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received the American Academy of Neu rological Surgery's highest award for research. His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in t he New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review Daily. Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.

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