Do No Harm

Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2014
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-0-297-86987-0 (ISBN)

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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 life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to 'do no harm' holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, Henry Marsh must make agonising decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practised by calm and detached surgeons, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. With astonishing compassion and candour, one of the country's leading neurosurgeons reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets and the moments of black humour that characterise a brain surgeon's life. DO NO HARM is an unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Above all, it is a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life's most difficult decisions.

Henry Marsh read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University before studying medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1984 and was appointed Consultant Neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley's/St George's Hospital in London in 1987, where he still works full time. He has been the subject of two major documentary films, YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS, which won the ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY GOLD MEDAL, and THE ENGLISH SURGEON, featuring his work in the Ukraine, which won an EMMY. He was made a CBE in 2010. He is married to the anthropologist and writer Kate Fox. http://www.theenglishsurgeon.com/

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.3.2014
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	145 x 221 mm
Gewicht	418 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Neurochirurgie
ISBN-10	0-297-86987-6 / 0297869876
ISBN-13	978-0-297-86987-0 / 9780297869870
Zustand	Neuware