Henry Marsh had spent four decades in neurosurgery trying to find a balance, as he puts it, between detachment and compassion. Then he became a patient himself, diagnosed with an incurable form of ...

Henry Marsh is an author and retired doctor, in whom, said The Economist, “neuroscience has found its Boswell.” In his most recent book, the physician becomes a patient, confronting a ...

Dr. Henry Marsh felt comfortable in hospitals — until he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. "I was much less self-assured now that I was a patient myself," he says. His book is And ...

In ‘And Finally,’ Henry Marsh, a British neurosurgeon and writer, gets a lesson in empathy.

When neurosurgeon Henry Marsh’s third memoir opens, he has volunteered to take part in a study that requires a scan of his brain. “It seemed a bit of a joke at the time,” he writes in “And ...

Henry Marsh, pioneering brain surgeon, navigates fear, powerlessness, and acceptance after a diagnosis of prostate cancer in his memoir ‘And Finally’ By Mary Ann Gwinn Globe Correspondent ...