Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh is a neurosurgeon. His most recent book is “And Finally: Matters of Life and Death” (Jonathan Cape)

The family doctor knows best

A sweeping history of the NHS and one GP’s inside account of a long career on the front line.

By Henry Marsh

By Henry Marsh

By Henry Marsh

By Henry Marsh

By Henry Marsh

All Articles

Genetic engineering can lead to great medical advances but, as Matthew Cobb’s new book shows, it also brings alarming…

By Henry Marsh

How one surgeon’s pioneering treatment healed soldiers with the most disfiguring injuries of the First World War.

By Henry Marsh

Gavin Francis examines how modern medicine tackles the crisis of illness, but neglects the essential process of physical and…

By Henry Marsh

Despite 2,000 years of study, there is still so much we don’t know about how the brain works.

By Henry Marsh

Risk and excitement drive many surgeons, but most don’t choose to operate in the world’s most dangerous places.

By Henry Marsh

Most languages are littered with references to the heart as the seat of the soul and emotion. This is…

By Henry Marsh

I had visions of autonomous cars paralysed at street ends, unable to compute whether to be English and give…

By Henry Marsh

How immunology – the study of the immune system – went from a marginal area of clinical medicine to…

By Henry Marsh