Description |
xix, 228 pages : illustration ; 20 cm |
Contents |
Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi |
Summary |
On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Kalanithi chronicles his transformation from a naïve medical student 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 |
Subject |
Kalanithi, Paul -- Health.
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Kalanithi, Paul -- Death.
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Lungs -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Neurosurgeons -- Biography.
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Husband and wife.
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Neurosurgeons.
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Lung Neoplasms.
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Genre/Form |
Autobiography.
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Biographies.
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Author |
Verghese, A. (Abraham), 1955- writer of foreword
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Kalanithi, Lucy, writer of epilogue
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LC no. |
2015023815 |
ISBN |
9780812988406 |
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081298840X |
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