Ante Todo No Hagas Daño / Do No Harm: Stories of Life. Death, and Brain Surgery - Marsh, Henry
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Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post 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 lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong? With astonishing compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry 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…mehr

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Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post 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 lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong? With astonishing compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry 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 provides 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.
Autorenporträt
Henry Marsh (Oxford, 1950) cursó Ciencias Políticas, Filosofía y Economía en la Universidad de Oxford, antes de estudiar Medicina en el Royal Free Hospital de Londres. Ingresó en el Colegio Real de Cirujanos en 1984, y ejerció durante más de treinta años de especialista en neurocirugía en el Atkinson Morley del St. George's Hospital de Londres hasta su jubilación en 2015. Su primer libro, Ante todo no hagas daño, que ha sido un bestseller internacional, ganó el Pen Ackerley Prize y el South Bank Sky Awards for Literature y se tradujo a más de veinte idiomas. Además, el doctor Marsh ha protagonizado dos documentales -Your Life in Their Hands, ganador del Premio Royal Television Society Gold Medal, y The English Surgeon, que obtuvo un Emmy- y fue nom-brado Comendador de la Orden del Imperio Británico en 2010. Confesiones, su segundo libro, ha sido finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award (2017) en el apartado de biografías.