Every day, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh must make agonizing decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to "do no harm" holds a bitter irony.
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong? 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. 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. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Offers a thoroughly revised artwork program, including more than 350 brand-new full-color surgical line drawings.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. Provides sweeping updates in its coverage of epilepsy surgery.ĭelivers greatly expanded coverage of pediatric neurosurgery. Presents the newest developments in minimally invasive surgery.
Numerous colour illustrations including tables, algorithms, photographs and flow charts elucidate the text.Ĭovers pre- and post- operative patient care ĭelivers over 1,220 outstanding illustrations―610 in full color―including many superb clinical and operative photographs, surgical line drawings, and at-a-glance tables.ĭescribes all of the latest neuroimaging techniques. The chapters cover all core areas within neurosurgery and the coverage is comprehensive without being encyclopedic. This new edition provides a broad overview of neurosurgery to house officers in the clinical neurosciences. Principles of Neurosurgery 2nd Edition PDF Free Download
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