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An edition of When Breath Becomes Air (2016)

When Breath Becomes Air

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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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Random House
Language
English
Pages
256

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Subjects

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 soc036000

People

Paul Kalanithi, Lucy Kalanithi

Places

United States, Arizona, California, New Haven CT, Yale University, Stanford University

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When Breath Becomes Air
2016, Random House
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2016, Random House
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El buen doctor
2016-03, Océano
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New York, USA
Copyright Date
2016

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.99 / 424
Library of Congress
RC280.L8 K35 2016, RC280.L8K35 2016

Contributors

Foreword
Abraham Verghese

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xix, 228 p.
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32830998M
ISBN 10
081298840X
ISBN 13
9780812988406
LCCN
2015023815
OCLC/WorldCat
974395454
Goodreads
58594092

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I knew with certainty that I would never be a doctor.
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