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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The author’s lifelong twin passions were literature and the science of neuroscience itself.
Chapter 3: Medical training gave Kalanithi direct insight into life, death, and meaning itself.
Chapter 4: During residency, Kalanithi bore greater responsibility and even more direct encounters with death.
Chapter 5: Amid mounting responsibility and exhaustion, Kalanithi found himself neglecting the human side of his work.
Chapter 6: Kalanithi spent time in a neuroscience lab before returning to greater responsibility at the hospital.
Chapter 7: Right before his residency ended, Kalanithi made a grim discovery.
Chapter 8: Kalanithi pondered life as a patient and debated whether he and his wife should have children.
Chapter 9: Though in a poor state, Kalanithi witnessed his daughter’s birth and passed away shortly afterward.
Chapter 10: Following Kalanithi’s death, his wife Lucy reflected on their time together with both sadness and gratitude.
Description
When Breath Becomes Air (2016) tells the incredible story of Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who was diagnosed with and died from cancer in his mid-thirties. These blinks detail his extraordinary journey in search of the meaning of life in the face of death.
Who Should Listen
- Philosophers and thinkers
- Medical students and those interested in the field
- Anyone who has ever lost a loved one