When Breath Becomes Air

• Main Author: Kalanithi, Paul (Author)
• Other Authors: Abraham Verghese (foreword)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Vintage 2018
• Edition: Print book : Biography : English
• Subjects: Kalanithi, Paul > Death.; Kalanithi, Paul > Health.; Lungs > Cancer > Patients > United States
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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 tra...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / by Abraham Verghese
• Prologue
• In perfect health I begin
• Cease not till death
• Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi.