I knew with certainty that I would never be a doctor.
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When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and illness, battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016.
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philosophy, Neurosurgeons, Cancer, Lungs, Husband and wife, Patients, Personal Memoirs, Health, Biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SOCIAL SCIENCES, Death & Dying, Biographies, MEDICAL, Lung Neoplasms, Lung cancer patients, SOCIAL SCIENCE, General, Husbands, Biografia, Pulmones, Cónyuges, Cirujanos, Cáncer, Pacientes, Biografía, Lungs, cancer, Cancer, patients, biography, Terminally ill, biography, Surgeons, biography, Physician and patient, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, MEDICAL / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-01-31, New York Times bestseller, Terminally ill, Kalanithi, paul, Healthkalanithi, paul, Attitude to death, Lung neoplasms, Lungs--cancer--patients, Lungs--cancer--patients--united states--biography, Neurosurgeons--biography, Biography & autobiography / personal memoirs, Medical / general, Social science / death & dying, Rc280.l8 k35 2016, 2016 d-937, Wz 100, Wz 100 k14w 2016, 616.99/424, Bio026000 med000000 soc036000People
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When Breath Becomes Air
2016, Random House
Hardcover
in English
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081298840X 9780812988406
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Dang hu xi hua wei kong qi: yi wei tian cai shen jing wai ke yi shi zui hou de sheng ming dong cha
2016, Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si, Shi Bao Chu Ban/Tsai Fong Books
in Chinese
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9571367281 9789571367286
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Translation of: When breath becomes air.
Includes bibliographical references.
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- Official web site
- When Breath Becomes Air - Wikipedia
- Review: In ‘When Breath Becomes Air,’ Dr. Paul Kalanithi Confronts an Early Death - The New York Times
- This book left me in tears | Bill Gates
- Two dying memoirists wrote bestsellers about their final days. Then their spouses fell in love. - The Washington Post
- When Breath Becomes Air review: A neurosurgeon’s story of terminal illness - The Irish Times
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April 23, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove 880 from edition_name |
February 9, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
August 7, 2019 | Edited by Lisa | Moved edition to primary work. |
July 20, 2019 | Created by MARC Bot | Imported from marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record |