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Bibliography Information:
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Collection:
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Adult Nonfiction |
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Call Number:
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616.99 |
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Author:
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Kalanithi, Paul |
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Title:
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When Breath Becomes Air |
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Summary, etc. note:
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Rattling,heartbreaking, and ultimately beautiful, the too-young Dr. Kalanithi's memoir is proof that the dying are the ones who have the most to teach us about life |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780812988406 |
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International Standard Book Number:
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081298840X |
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System control number:
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(OCoLC)ocn936184008 |
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Authentication code:
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lccopycat |
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Classification number:
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RC280.L8 |
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Item number:
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K35 2016 |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese. |
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Edition statement:
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First edition |
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Place of publication:
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New York ,NY |
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Name of publisher:
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Random House |
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Date of publication:
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2016 |
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New York : |
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Random House, |
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[2016] |
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Ã2016. |
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Extent:
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xix, 228 pages |
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Dimensions:
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20 cm |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
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Formatted contents note:
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Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi. |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. 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, the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated. With incredible literary quality, philosophical acuity, and medical authority, When Breath Becomes Air approaches the questions raised by facing mortality from the dual perspective of the neurosurgeon who spent a decade meeting patients in the twilight between life and death, and the terminally ill patient who suddenly found himself living in that liminality. At the base of Paul's inquiry are essential questions, such as: What makes life worth living in the face of death? What happens when the future, instead of being a ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present? When faced with a terminal diagnosis, what does it mean to have a child, to nuture a new life as another one fades away? As Paul wrote, "Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn't really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live." Paul Kalanithi passed away in March 2015, while working on this book"-- |
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Summary, etc. note:
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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 naèive 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. |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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Donated |
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Purchase price:
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25.00 |
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Personal name:
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Kalanithi, Paul |
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General subdivision:
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Health. |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Subject:
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Lungs |
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Subject:
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Neurosurgeons |
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Subject:
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Husband and wife. |
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Subject:
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Medical |
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Subject:
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Autobiography |
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Subject:
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying. |
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Form subdivision:
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Biography. |
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Form subdivision:
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Biography. |
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General subdivision:
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Cancer |
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General subdivision:
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Patients |
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Geographic subdivision:
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United States |
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Source of term:
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lcgft |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Biographies. |
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Personal name:
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Verghese, A. |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1955- |
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Relator term:
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writer of foreword. |
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Fuller form of name:
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(Abraham), |
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Materials specified:
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Cover image |
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Materials specified:
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Contributor biographical information |
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Materials specified:
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Publisher description |
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Materials specified:
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Sample text |
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Uniform Resource Identifier:
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9780812988406.jpg |
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Uniform Resource Identifier:
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015023815-b.html |
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Uniform Resource Identifier:
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015023815-d.html |
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Uniform Resource Identifier:
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https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1613/2015023815-s.html |
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acquire |
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1 shelf copy |
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policy default |
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rl11 2015-10-22 |
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rl06 2016-02-12 z-processor |
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rl11 2015-10-22 ONIX to Dewey |
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rl06 2016-02-12 to CALM; |
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xl05 2015-10-23 (telework); |