Henry Marsh

Admissions

A Life in Brain Surgery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Sensational' SUNDAY TIMES NO. BESTSELLER

'Extraordinary...both exhilarating and alarming...fascinating' DAILY MAIL

'Wonderful...a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit' FINANCIAL TIMES

Henry Marsh has spent four decades operating on the human brain. In this searing and provocative memoir following his retirement from the NHS, he reflects on the experiences that have shaped his career and life, gaining a deeper understanding of what matters to us all in the end.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Group / W&N
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 552687
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 273g
• ISBN-13: 9781474603874
• ISBN-10: 1474603874
• Artikelnr.: 49072210

Autorenporträt

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. His prize-winning memoir, DO NO HARM, was a SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestseller. He has been the subject of two award-winning documentary films, YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS and THE ENGLISH SURGEON. He was made a CBE in 2010.

Rezensionen

Sensational...Marsh is curmudgeonly, unflinching, clinical, competitive, often contemptuous and consistently curious. In Admissions he scrubs up just as well the second time around and continues to revel in his joyous candour THE SUNDAY TIMES