Abstract
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi Bodley Head, 2016, HB, 256pp, £9.99, 978-1847923677 Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgeon, defined by his lifetime endeavour to decipher and manipulate the human body, and who was ultimately prematurely destroyed by a random quirk of his own body. Molecule by molecule, what happened to Paul is easy to understand. A strand of DNA in one of the cells forming the lining of his lungs was incorrectly copied, the resulting protein rendered non-functional, and the cell switched to default mode — rapid division. …
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