And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

Marsh, Henry

ISBN 10: 1250286085 / ISBN 13: 9781250286086

Verlag: St. Martin's Press, 2023

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1250286085-3-36605324

Inhaltsangabe:

From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh''s And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience.

As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence.

As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and frustrated by the inconveniences of illness and old age. But he is also more entranced than ever by the mysteries of science and the brain, the beauty of the natural world and his love for his family. Elegiac, candid, luminous and poignant, And Finally is ultimately not so much a book about death, but a book about life and what matters in the end.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: HENRY MARSH studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London, 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. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Do No Harm and NBCC finalist Admissions, and has been the subject of two documentary films, Your Life in Their Hands, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal, and The English Surgeon, which won an Emmy. He was made a CBE in 2010. He is married to the anthropologist Kate Fox, and lives in London and Oxford.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
Verlag: St. Martin's Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Good