El buen doctor / Paul Kalanithi ; prólogo de Abraham Verghese ; [traducción, Enrique Mercado].
"Paul Kalanithi, a young and promising neurosurgeon, received a devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty-six. He was a doctor treating patients one day and the next was struggling for his own life. On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training, he decided to begin writing this book to come to terms with and give closure to his life, and to face death with courage. What makes a life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder towards 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 a few of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi passed away in March 2015, yet his words live on as a guide and gift to us all. Simultaneously a reminder of the fragility of our existence as well as a plea for a brave and vigorous life" -- Amazon.com.
"Paul Kalanithi, joven y prometedor neurocirujano, recibió a los 35 años un devastador diagnóstico de cáncer de pulmón. Entonces decidió escribir este libro, en el que cuenta, por un lado, qué lo llevó a dejar sus estudios literarios para dedicarse a la medicina (y en particular a la investigación sobre el cerebro humano), y cómo tuvo que llegar a un acuerdo consigo mismo para dar cierre a su vida y afrontar la muerte con valentía. A la vez un recordatorio sobre la fragilidad de nuestra existencia y un alegato por la vida valiente y vigorosa, este libro está hecho para inspirar y conmover por igual" -- casadelibro.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9786077358640
- ISBN: 6077358649
- Physical Description: 208 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Mexico : Editorial Océano De Mexico, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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Language Note: | Text in Spanish = Texto en español. |
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Subject: | Kalanithi, Paul > Health. Lungs > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography. Neurosurgeons > Biography. Husband and wife. Spanish language. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | 616.99424092 K14 2016 (Text) | 33126021951755 | Adult Nonfiction World Languages | Available | - |