When Death Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi, emne: krop og

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When Death Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi, emne: krop og sundhed

Navn: When Breath Becomes Air
Forfatter: Paul Kalanithi
Sprog: Engelsk
Bemærkninger:
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- Paperback
- Sider: 256
- ISBN-10: 9781784701994
- ISBN-13: 978-1784701994

Beskrivelse:
‘A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living’ Nigella Lawson

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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017