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发表于2024-07-06
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For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
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 treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air 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 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.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
Paul Kalanithi, M.D., was a neurosurgeon and writer. Paul grew up in Kingman, Arizona, before attending Stanford University, from which he graduated in 2000 with a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature and a B.A. in Human Biology. He earned an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine from the University of Cambridge before attending medical school. In 2007, Paul graduated cum-laude from the Yale School of Medicine, winning the Lewis H. Nahum Prize for outstanding research and membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He returned to Stanford for residency training in Neurological Surgery and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience, during which he authored over twenty scientific publications and received the American Academy of Neurological Surgery’s highest award for research.
Paul’s reflections on doctoring and illness – he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in 2013, though he never smoked – have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Paris Review Daily, in addition to interviews in academic settings and media outlets such as MSNBC. Paul completed neurosurgery residency in 2014. Paul died in March, 2015, while working on When Breath Becomes Air, an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.. He is survived by his wife Lucy and their daughter Cady.
best book i've read recently.
評分sad, heavy, readable, engaging, life and death, thought provoking
評分沒有特彆發人深省的大智大慧……但是讀到他老婆寫的後記的時候還是流瞭一堆鼻涕和眼淚:發生在Paul身上的事是個悲劇,但Paul並不是個悲情人物。離死亡很近的人也可以有詩和遠方。
評分"Paul confronted death-examined it, wrestled it, accepted it-as a physician and a patient." 死亡來臨的時候,他說I'm ready。 看到後麵哽咽瞭好幾次。
評分"Paul confronted death-examined it, wrestled it, accepted it-as a physician and a patient." 死亡來臨的時候,他說I'm ready。 看到後麵哽咽瞭好幾次。
全世界只有万分之零点一二的人会在36岁前患上肺癌,保罗·卡拉尼什(Paul Kalanithi)是其中之一。当你读到这本书时,他已不在人世。 保罗的人生故事曾是一个励志的美国梦。 他是印度移民的儿子,出生于医学世家,有一个爱好文学的母亲。在父母的悉心培养下,他成了超级学霸,...
評分保罗自嘲活过了勃朗特三姐妹中的两位,活过了济慈,我在25岁的时候也自嘲活过了莱因哈特·冯·罗严克拉姆。 本书相当于保罗的一个未完成的自传,前面部分讲述保罗的成长经历,从文学的道路转变到医学的道路,后面讲述保罗患病之后的经过和心理状态,直到无法再继续写作为止。 ...
評分全世界只有万分之零点一二的人会在36岁前患上肺癌,保罗·卡拉尼什(Paul Kalanithi)是其中之一。当你读到这本书时,他已不在人世。 保罗的人生故事曾是一个励志的美国梦。 他是印度移民的儿子,出生于医学世家,有一个爱好文学的母亲。在父母的悉心培养下,他成了超级学霸,...
評分Paul Kalanithi 的的遗书 当呼吸成为空气 开始真正吸引我的的时候是当他写到:我被成就感驱动的时刻渐渐变少, 如今驱使我生活着的是一种诚恳的、对于生活的试理解,即,什么赋予生命意义? (I was driven less by achievement than by trying understanding in earnest:what...
評分When Breath Becomes Air pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024