When breath becomes air

Buch

Kalanithi, Paul

  • Titel: When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese
  • Person(en): Kalanithi, Paul [Verfasser*in]
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Originalsprache: Englisch
  • Umfang: 228 Seiten
  • Erschienen: New York : Random House, 2019
  • ISBN/Preis: 978-1-9848-0182-1 Broschur : EUR 8.50
  • Signatur: RAT und TAT > Fit und Gesund
  • Val 0 Sterben KALA•/21 Englisch Val 0

Inhalt: 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.