Do No Harm Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

'A SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT' IAN MCEWAN * * * * * What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences when it all goes wrong? DO NO HARM offers an unforgettable insight into the highs and lows of a life dedicated to operating on the human brain, in all its exquisite complexity. With astonishing candour and compassion, Henry Marsh reveals the exhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busy modern hospital, and above all the need for hope when faced with life's most agonising decisions. * * * * * Winner: PEN Ackerley Prize South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature Shortlisted: Costa Biography Award Duff Cooper Prize Wellcome Book Prize Guardian First Book Award Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize Longlisted: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Henry Marsh was one of Britain's foremost brain surgeons, and worked as Consultant Neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley's/St George's Hospital in London for thirty years. Since retiring from full-time work in the NHS, he has continued to operate and lecture abroad, in Nepal, Albania and Ukraine. He has been the subject of two award-winning documentary films, YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS and THE ENGLISH SURGEON. He is the author of two memoirs, the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling DO NO HARM and ADMISSIONS. He was made a CBE in 2010.

Zusammenfassung

The SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING, award-winning and candid insight into the life and work of a modern neurosurgeon - its triumphs and disasters. 'An astonishing glimpse into this stressful career' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Bericht

Neurosurgery has met its Boswell in Henry Marsh. Painfully honest about the mistakes that can 'wreck' a brain, exquisitely attuned to the tense and transient bond between doctor and patient, and hilariously impatient of hospital management, Marsh draws us deep into medicine's most difficult art and lifts our spirits. It's a superb achievement Ian McEwan

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Marsh Henry, Henry Marsh
• Verlag: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.10.2014
• Thema: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Biographien, Autobiographien; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Klinische Fächer
• EAN: 9781780225920
• ISBN: 978-1-78022-592-0
• Anzahl Seiten: 304
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 13.3 x 20 x 2.2 cm
• Serie: Phoenix
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