Henry Marsh
Geboren: March 05, 1950 – Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Henry Marsh is a British neurosurgeon and author whose writing explores brain surgery, medical uncertainty, ethics, and mortality. He is best known for the memoirs Do No Harm, Admissions, and And Finally. His work has reached a broad international readership and is widely regarded for its candid, humane account of modern medicine.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
Henry Marsh was born in Oxford in 1950, the youngest of four children of the law reformer Norman Marsh and Christel Marsh, who had fled Nazi Germany before the war. He was educated at the Dragon School and Westminster, and at first seemed headed for the academic path expected in his family, reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College, Oxford. Yet his route into medicine was indirect and hard won. A period of depression led him to leave Oxford, spend time in psychiatric care, and work in an operating theatre in Ashington, where the practical discipline of surgery gave him a vocation of his own. He returned to complete his Oxford degree, then studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Another decisive experience was personal: his infant son survived a brain tumour, and not long afterward Marsh saw an aneurysm operation that persuaded him to become a neurosurgeon. He joined St George’s Hospital in London, became a consultant there in 1987, and later helped establish awake craniotomy for selected brain tumours as routine practice. ((https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4650337))
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"Neurosurgery has met its Boswell in Henry Marsh"
— Ian McEwan ((
"Brain surgeon Henry Marsh's memoir is an honest, sometimes alarming and always compelling account of his working life"
— Woman & Home ((
"Henry Marsh confronts his mortality"
— New Statesman ((
"Henry Marsh may have retired from medicine but let's hope he keeps producing books as good as this one, which enthral as well as teach"
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"Henry Marsh, pioneering brain surgeon, navigates fear, powerlessness, and acceptance after a diagnosis of prostate cancer in his memoir And Finally"
— The Boston Globe ((
"Brain surgeon Henry Marsh tells of triumphs, failures in bestselling memoir Do No Harm"
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