When Breath Becomes Air
- Author Paul Kalanithi
- Narrator Sunil Malhotra, Lucy Kalanithi
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 10 March 2016
- Run Time 5 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Coping with cancer, Coping with death and bereavement, Memoirs, Neurosciences.
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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 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 life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?
Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.
'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times
© Paul Kalanithi 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016
Critics Review
Dr Kalanithi describes, clearly and simply, and entirely without self-pity, his journey from innocent medical student to professionally detached and all-powerful neurosurgeon to helpless patient, dying from cancer. He learns lessons about the reality of illness and the doctor-patient relationship that most doctors only learn in old age but Paul Kalanithi died at the tragically early age of 37.
Every doctor should read this book - written by a member of our own tribe, it helps us understand and overcome the barriers we all erect between ourselves and our patients as soon as we are out of medical school
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| Author | Paul Kalanithi |
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| Narrator | Sunil Malhotra, Lucy Kalanithi |
| Duration | 5 hours and 29 minutes |
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| ISBN | 9781473546523 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Genre | Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Coping with cancer, Coping with death and bereavement, Memoirs, Neurosciences |
| Collections | Better In Audio |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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