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When breath becomes air / (Record no. 371903)

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CONTROL NUMBER
control field BK0017131017
CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field DLC
DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20151230151127.0
FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 151022s2016 nyu 000 0aeng
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2015023815
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 081298840X
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780812988406
CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency NjBwBT
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 616.99/424
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number B
Edition number 23
AUTHOR NAME
AUTHOR NAME Kalanithi, Paul,
TITLE STATEMENT
Title When breath becomes air /
Statement of responsibility, etc Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Random House Inc
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2016.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xix, 228 pages ;
Dimensions 20 cm.
SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do youdo when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Lungs
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Neurosurgeons
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Married people
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type 01. English Non Fiction
LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
d 616.994 KAL
c 314
Copies
Piece designation (barcode) Koha full call number School Code Collection
BLUE28089616.994 KALBluefield High School 
MONT19424616.994 KALMontague Regional High School 
BISX17009616.994 KALBirchwood Intermediate SchoolNon-Fiction