William Leith

The thrill of cutting into a human brain

A review of Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery. Cutting people’s heads open, it turns out, really does your head in

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  • Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

    Henry Marsh

    Weidenfeld, pp. 278

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