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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The author relates how a chance encounter in a magic shop with a woman who taught him exercises to ease his sufferings and manifest his greatest desires gave him a glimpse of the relationship between the brain and the heart, and drove him to explore the neuroscience of compassion and altruism.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Dr. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. In 'Gifted Hands', he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions at age thirty-three. Taking you into the operating room where he has saved countless lives, Ben Carson is a role model for anyone who attempts...
4) Ni de xin, shi zui qiang da de mo fa: yi wei shen jing wai ke yi shi tan suo xin zhi de mi mi zhi lü
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Series
Publisher
Ping an wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
中文（繁體）
Author
Publisher
Hŭrŭm Ch'ulp'an
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Korean
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1953, a renowned Yale neurosurgeon named William Beecher Scoville performed a novel operation on a 27-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison, drilling two silver-dollar sized holes in his forehead and suctioning out a few teaspoons of tissue from a mysterious region deep inside his brain. The operation helped control Molaison's intractable seizures, but it also did something else: It left Molaison amnesic for the rest of...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Océano De Mexico
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The mesmerizing biography of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet determined and all possibilities...
10) Dang hu xi hua wei kong qi: yi wei tian cai shen jing wai ke yi shi zui hou de sheng ming dong cha
Author
Series
Ren sheng gu wen volume 238
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua
Pub. Date
2016
Language
中文（繁體）
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