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    Questo autore approfondisce le profonde questioni della vita, della morte e del significato attraverso una lente unica di competenza medica e arte letteraria. Il suo lavoro offre una riflessione singolare sulla vulnerabilità umana e sulla resilienza di fronte alla mortalità. Attraverso la sua scrittura, offre ai lettori un'esplorazione avvincente del rapporto medico-paziente, evidenziando esperienze umane universali. Le sue acute prospettive su cosa significhi essere umani di fronte a una crisi risuonano con una profonda comprensione della vita stessa.

    Paul Kalanithi
    When Breath Becomes Air

    • When Breath Becomes Air

      • 256pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      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

      When Breath Becomes Air2016
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