Y Al Final, Asuntos de Vida O Muerte / And Finally: Matters of Life and Death - Marsh, Henry
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"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."--…mehr

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"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."--
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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.