Henry Marsh

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

The vagus nerve industry

Can a small and unassuming bundle of fibres really be the key to better health and a longer life?

By Henry Marsh

By Henry Marsh

By Henry Marsh

By Henry Marsh

By Henry Marsh

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Siddharta Mukherjee’s new study of how cells work reveals the complexities of the human body – and the science…

By Henry Marsh

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

By Henry Marsh