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100			_aPaul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese
245		0	_aWhen breath becomes air _bWhat makes life worth living in the face of Death?
260			_aLondon _bVintange _c2017
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520			_aAt the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade?s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi?s transformation from a nav̐e medical student ?possessed,? as he wrote, ?by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life? 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.
650			_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
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