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DO NO HARM by HENRY MARSH Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

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An astonishingly candid insight into the life and work of a modern neurosurgeon - its triumphs and disasters. A SUNDAY TIMES bestseller, and shortlisted for the GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD and the COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD, as well as longlisted for the SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION, Duff Cooper Prize, Wellcome Book Prize, and Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize.

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?

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, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh must make agonizing decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty.

If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached doctors, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. With astonishing compassion and candor, Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life.

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.

CONTENTS:

1.Pineocytoma

2.Aneurysm

3.Haemangioblastoma

4.Melodrama

5.Tic douloureux

6.Angor animi

7.Meningioma

8.Choroid plexus papilloma

9.Leucotomy

10.Trauma

11.Ependymoma

12.Glioblastoma

13.Infarct

14.Neurotmesis

15.Medulloblastoma

16.Pituitary adenoma

17.Empyema

18.Carcinoma

19.Akinetic mutism

20.Hubris

21.Photopsia

22.Astrocytoma

23.Tyrosine kinase

24.Oligodendroglioma

25.Anaesthesia dolorosa

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : 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 Morleys/St Georges 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 Fo.

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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

'Fascinating and illuminating; a gripping memoir of an extraordinary career.' -Daniel.J. Levitin, Ph D, author of The Organized Mind.

'A soul-baring account of a practical-minded neurosurgeon'- Katrina Firlik, author of Another Day in the Frontal Lobe.

'Marsh takes the reader deep into a world of life, death, and everything in between. You will not be able to put this book down.'-Paul Ruggieri, M.D., author of Confessions of a Surgeon

''With rare and unflinching honesty, Henry Marsh describes not only the soaring triumphs but the shattering tragedies that are so much a part of every surgeon's life.' -Michael J Collins, author of Hot Lights, Cold Steel.

'Do No Harm dares to reveal the raw and tender humanity behind brain surgery' - Michael Paul Mason, author of Head Cases.

'Henry Marsh peels back the meninges to reveal the glistening, harrowing, and utterly compelling world of neurosurgery' - Daniel Ofri, M.D., Ph D, author of What Doctors Feel.

When a book opens like this: ' I often have to cut into the brain and it is something I hate doing' - you can't let it go, you have to read on, don't you?' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Financial Times (UK).

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SKU Code	PRK B 5418
Weight in Kg	0.300000
Dispatch Period in Days	3
Brand	Bookwomb
ISBN No.	9781780225920
Author Name	Henry Marsh
Publisher Name	ORION PUBLISHING GROUP