When breath becomes air /
On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Kalanithi chronicles his transformation from a naïve medical student into a neurosurgeon at Stanford...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2016]
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| Summary: | On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Kalanithi chronicles his transformation from a naïve medical student into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 228 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780812988406 081298840X 0812988418 9780812988413 |