When Breath Becomes Air
[Westminster, Md.] ; New York : Books on Tape : Random House Audio, [2016]
Format: Audiobook on CD
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 5 audio discs (5 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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 making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air, which features a Foreword by Dr. Abraham Verghese and an Epilogue by Kalanithi's wife, Lucy, 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 young neurosurgeon at Stanford, guiding patients toward a deeper understanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality.
Other Authors:
Verghese, Abraham, 1955- writer of supplementary textual content.
Malhotra, Sunil, narrator.
Campbell, Cassandra, narrator.
Verghese, Abraham, 1955- writer of supplementary textual content.
Malhotra, Sunil, narrator.
Campbell, Cassandra, narrator.
Subjects:
Kalanithi, Paul -- Health.
Kalanithi, Paul.
Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Lungs -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Husband and wife.
Death.
Terminally ill -- Biography.
Kalanithi, Paul -- Health.
Kalanithi, Paul.
Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Lungs -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Husband and wife.
Death.
Terminally ill -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781524708146
UPC: 9781524708146
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
CD BIOGRAPHY Kalanithi, Paul | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
CD BIOGRAPHY Kalanithi, Paul | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Book on CD Nonfiction | In |
More Formats
Compact disc.
Title from container.
Sound recording.
Read by Sunil Malhotra and Cassandra Campbell.
Title from container.
Sound recording.
Read by Sunil Malhotra and Cassandra Campbell.