And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

"He produces marvellous facts...while emphasising how little is known about how our grey matter actually works ..."

"Henry Marsh may have retired from medicine but let's hope he keeps producing books as good as this one, which enthral as well as teach."

"It is these sorts of insights — exploring his fallibility, his shortcomings and even his complicity in an uncaring system — that make Marsh's writing so powerful and that allow him to transcend the usual pathography."

"There is nothing depressing about this book."

"The conclusion finds him still alive and, readers will hope, writing another book ..."

"There's no false comfort here."

"His discussion of end-of-life care and assisted dying is the best essay I have read on the subject."

"But the book is far more than a 'how to' manual."

"He examines the underpinnings of science, the limitations of memory, and the nature of consciousness itself."

"As Marsh is at pains to explain, doctors do not know as much as their patients want them to, and can only predict in terms of statistical probabilities."