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Paul Kalanithi

When Breath Becomes Air

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson 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 li… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5291-1094-4
  • EAN: 9781529110944
  • Produktnummer: 27969935
  • Verlag: Random House UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Ausstattung: A-Format Paperback
  • Masse: H17.8 cm x B10.8 cm x D1.7 cm 139 g
  • Gewicht: 139

Über den Autor


Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in English literature, human biology, and history and philoso­phy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received the American Academy of Neu­rological Surgery's highest award for research.His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the 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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