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When Breath Becomes Air
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20201364
作者：
Kalanithi, Paul/ Verghese, Abraham
定價：
875
會員價：
$744
ISBN：
9780812988406
出版年份：
2016
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當生命邁向旅程最後的ㄧ哩路時，該如何坦然迎接終局？

一位原本應該將拯救無數生命的神經外科醫生，Paul Kalanithi，在正值人生精華的36歲，忽然被診斷告知出已罹患肺癌第四期，這消息幾乎粉碎他對於未來和妻子的一切生涯規劃...
原本就熱愛文學的Paul，在與病魔對抗、治療期間，不斷地從文學的角度、神經醫學的角度，持續思考自己生命的意義，他是醫生，也是病人，更是丈夫、父親、兒子，在這些盤根錯節的關係中，生命的流轉和存在從不曾消失。
他在書中寫道，當我們面對人生中某些特定的時刻，我們勢必要回頭檢視過往，並對自己所有說過的話、做過的事做出總結。死亡終將會來到，沒有人能夠逃避，但更重要的是在死亡來到前，你還能做什麼、留下些什麼。
Paul Kalanithi醫生在2015年3月在家人的陪伴下離世，而他的著作卻永存世人心中，不斷提醒我們生命的珍貴及當下的美好。

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. 

When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? 

Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.
PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in English literature, human biology, and history and philosophy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received the American Academy of Neurological Surgery’s highest award for research. His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review Daily and in his New York Times number one bestselling book, When Breath Becomes Air. 

Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia
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