After 'When Breath Becomes Air:' a conversation with Lucy Kalanithi

2018-11-12

University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Lucy Kalanithi is many things. Physician. Professor. Writer, and speaker. Mother. Widow. She was married for nine years to Dr. Paul Kalanithi, a young neurosurgeon diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, the illness that claimed his life in 2015 at age thirty-seven. As he struggled, suffered, and worried, Paul wrote. His memoir—When Breath Becomes Air, for which Lucy wrote the epilogue—became a bestseller after it was published in 2016.

In this Medical Center Hour, which is also the School of Nursing's annual Bice Memorial Lecture, Dr. Lucy Kalanithi talks with UVA Nursing Professor Ken White about the Kalanithis' challenging journey to the end of Paul's life and how Paul and Lucy did not avoid suffering but, rather, leaned into it and created meaning from it.

The Zula Mae Baber Bice Memorial Lecture
Co-presented with the School of Nursing

Kalanithi, Lucy (Speaker); White, Kenneth R. (Moderator); Fontaine, Dorrie K. (Moderator); Childress, Marcia Day (Moderator); University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Filmed lectures

Kalanithi, Paul; Physicians as authors; Terminal care

Medical Center Hour

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

English

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