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100			_a Kalanithi, Paul _9126019
245			_aWhen breath becomes air / _cPaul Kalanithi and forward by Abraham Verghese.
260			_aLondon: _bVintage, _c2018.
300			_axix; 228 pages, _c18 cm
520			_a"At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined, the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated. With incredible literary quality, philosophical acuity, and medical authority, When Breath Becomes Air approaches the questions raised by facing mortality from the dual perspective of the neurosurgeon who spent a decade meeting patients in the twilight between life and death, and the terminally ill patient who suddenly found himself living in that liminality. At the base of Paul's inquiry are essential questions, such as: What makes life worth living in the face of death? What happens when the future, instead of being a ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present? When faced with a terminal diagnosis, what does it mean to have a child, to nuture a new life as another one fades away? As Paul wrote, "Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn't really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live." Paul Kalanithi passed away in March 2015, while working on this book"--
546			_aIn English
600	1	0	_aKalanithi, Paul _xHealth. _9126025
650		0	_aLungs _v Biography. _x Cancer _xPatients _zUnited States _9126026
650		0	_aNeurosurgeons _xBiography. _9126027
650		0	_aHusband and wife. _9126028
650		0	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. _2bisacsh _9126029
700			_a Verghese, Abraham, _d1955 _ewriter of foreword. _9126021
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