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Admissions : life as a brain surgeon / Henry Marsh.
Van Pelt Library RD592.9.M37 A3 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marsh, Henry, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marsh, Henry, 1950---Health.
- Marsh, Henry.
- Marsh, Henry, 1950-.
- Neurosurgeons--Great Britain--Biography.
- Neurosurgeons.
- Health.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 271 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Traces the author's post-retirement work as a surgeon and teacher in such remote areas as Nepal and Ukraine, illuminating the challenges of working in difficult regions and finding purposeful work after a career.
- Contents:
- The lock-keeper's cottage
- London
- Nepal
- America
- Awake craniotomy
- the mind-brain problem
- An elephant ride
- Lawyers
- Making things
- Broken windows
- Memory
- Ukraine
- Sorry
- The red squirrel
- Neither the sun nor death.
- ISBN:
- 9781250127266
- 1250127262
- OCLC:
- 1001412936
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