And Finally
Matters of Life and Death
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Henry Marsh
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Long-listed, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2023
This program is read by the author.
"As a mature observer of the human condition, Marsh has audible serenity that makes listeners curious about how his story ends."—AudioFile Magazine
From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience.
As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence.
As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and frustrated by the inconveniences of illness and old age. But he is also more entranced than ever by the mysteries of science and the brain, the beauty of the natural world and his love for his family. Elegiac, candid, luminous and poignant, And Finally is ultimately not so much an audiobook about death, but an audiobook about life and what matters in the end.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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Critic reviews
"In the contemplation of death Marsh illuminates the gift of life, rendering it even more precious. And Finally has all the candour, elegance and revelation we've come to expect from Marsh. I read it straight through carried along by the force of its prose and the beauty of its ideas. It's a book to treasure and reread; I'm very grateful for it."—Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being and Shapeshifters
"In this superb meditation on life and death, Henry Marsh tackles the matter of mortality with all his trademark wit, wisdom, grace and humility. He turns his formidable intellect and scalpel-sharp prose on himself as well as the medical profession—with marvellous results. Unflinching, profound and deeply humane, And Finally is magnificent."—Rachel Clarke, author of Dear Life
"And Finally is a close and courageous look at the prospect of death by someone who has seen it more clearly and more often than most of us, and who writes with great fluency and grace. Henry Marsh is a great neurosurgeon: he is also a very fine writer. I admire this book enormously."—Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials
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- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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The shark attacked while she was snorkeling, tearing through Micki Glenn’s breast and shredding her right arm. Her husband, a surgeon, saved her life on the spot, but when she was safely home she couldn’t just go on with her life. She had entered an even more profound survival journey: the aftermath. The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules don’t apply. In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves.
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Well written, compelling and honest to the end
- By Mark on 07-21-14
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Nothing Was the Same
- A Memoir
- By: Kay Redfield Jamison
- Narrated by: Renée Raudman
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison---who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion---could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled severe dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia.
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Liked the story better than the narrator
- By Pamela Harvey on 07-22-11
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Peace, Love & Healing
- Bodymind Communication & the Path to Self-Healing: An Exploration
- By: Bernie S. Siegel
- Narrated by: Bernie S. Siegel
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
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A classic of patient empowerment, Peace, Love & Healing offered the revolutionary message that we have an innate ability to heal ourselves. Now proven by numerous scientific studies, the connection between our minds and our bodies has been increasingly accepted as fact throughout the mainstream medical community. In a new introduction, Dr. Bernie Siegel highlights current research on the relationships among consciousness, psychosocial factors, attitude, and immune function.
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horrible horrible
- By Honestly on 02-09-15
By: Bernie S. Siegel
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Life After Death, Powerful Evidence You Will Not Die
- By: Stephen Hawley Martin
- Narrated by: Michael Bowen
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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What happens when we die? This new edition of Life After Death adds to powerful evidence consciousness which continues the author presented in his 2015 release. He spent two years gathering information that demonstrates this and along the way interviewed more than a hundred experts in a number of different fields. Among them were parapsychologists, medical doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, quantum physicists, and researchers into the true nature of reality.
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Promises to be agnostic but quotes Christ often
- By STS95 on 02-21-22
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The Gift of Adversity
- The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections
- By: Norman E. Rosenthal M.D.
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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The noted research psychiatrist explores how life's disappointments and difficulties provide us with the lessons we need to become better, bigger, and more resilient human beings. Adversity is an irreducible fact of life. Although we can and should learn from all experiences, both positive and negative best-selling author Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal believes that adversity is by far the best teacher most of us will ever encounter.
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Book ruined by the narrator
- By David C. on 12-07-22
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When Breath Becomes Air
- By: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.
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Phenomenal book!
- By A. Potter on 01-16-16
By: Paul Kalanithi, and others
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Knocking on Heaven's Door
- The Path to a Better Way of Death
- By: Katy Butler
- Narrated by: Katy Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Like so many of us, award-winning writer Katy Butler always assumed her aging parents would experience healthy, active retirements before dying peacefully at home. Then her father suffered a stroke that left him incapable of easily finishing a sentence or showering without assistance. Her mother was thrust into full-time caregiving, and Katy became one of the 24 million Americans who help care for aging parents. In an effort to correct a minor and non - life threatening heart arrhythmia, doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker.
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A better way to narrate a book about death?
- By MAUREEN on 10-21-13
By: Katy Butler
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The Undead
- Organ Harvesting, The Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers - How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
- By: Dick Teresi
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear - and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting.
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Eye opening
- By Amy Giglio on 07-01-18
By: Dick Teresi
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
- My Tale of Madness and Recovery
- By: Barbara K. Lipska, Elaine McArdle - contributor
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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In 2015, Barbara Lipska - a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness - was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia- and schizophrenia-like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But miraculously, the immunotherapy her doctors had prescribed worked quickly. Just eight weeks after her nightmare began, Lipska returned to normal. With one difference: she remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity.
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Be Prepared To Feel Insane--
- By Gillian on 04-11-18
By: Barbara K. Lipska, and others
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Asleep
- The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
- By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived. Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they try to solve this epidemic and treat its victims - who learned the worst fate was not dying of it, but surviving it.
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Scary, and still unsolved, medical mystery
- By joyce on 12-14-14
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Heart
- A History
- By: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As cardiologist and best-selling author Sandeep Jauhar tells in The Heart, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ.
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Fascinating Insight
- By Ironcharles on 10-27-18
By: Sandeep Jauhar
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Little Matches
- A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark
- By: Maryanne O'Hara
- Narrated by: Maryanne O'Hara
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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When their only child was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at the age of two, Maryanne O'Hara and her husband were told that Caitlin could live a long life or be dead in a matter of months. Thirty-one years later, Caitlin lost her battle with this devastating disease following an excruciating two-year wait on the transplant list and a last-minute race to locate a pair of healthy lungs. The sudden spiral of events left Maryanne in an existential crisis, searching to find an answer to the eternal question: Why we are here?
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I don't know who needs to read it...
- By H. Hill on 04-18-23
By: Maryanne O'Hara
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Brotherhood
- Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream
- By: Sanjiv Chopra, Deepak Chopra
- Narrated by: Deepak Chopra, Sanjiv Chopra
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and ambitious of the new generation. In the 1970s, they each emigrated to the United States to make a new life. Both faced tough obstacles: while Deepak encountered resistance from Western-trained doctors over what he called the mind-body connection, Sanjiv struggled to reconcile the beliefs of his birthplace with those of his new home. Eventually, each brother became convinced that America was the right place to build a life, and the Chopras went on to great achievements.
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How to Toot Your Horn
- By Kenneth on 07-01-13
By: Sanjiv Chopra, and others
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- John C. Menszer
- 01-22-23
Death Without Illusions
A prominent doctor receives a terminal diagnosis. Follow his wide ranging musings on mortality and the meaning of his life. He is a gifted writer and narrator of his work. There is much wisdom but be prepared, he takes us on an unfocused journey through the predilections of his mind.
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- California Bob
- 02-06-23
A book for adults. Dr Marsh shares a well/lived life. His rumination’s as he deals with terminal illness is illuminating.
Dr Marsh has a genius with words. He has a gift for explaining complicated medical concepts. He is open with his fears, faults and mistakes he has made. His journey through his well-lived life is all the more meaningful Fi his candor.
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- Lucy
- 02-26-23
Thank you for sharing.
As a 65 year old woman who has her share of illness and loss over the years it was enlightening to hear you speak of the medical profession in a just manner. I am always appreciative of doctors and nurses and grateful they have chosen their profession. Thank you.
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- John F. Crawford, Jr.
- 02-06-23
One of the best Audiobooks I’ve read
I absolutely loved Henry Marsh’s voice, storytelling ability, his and frank and direct views and her unmasked candor.
Curiously, he says more than once, as his story draws to a close, that we have a duty to be optimistic,
Inasmuch as optimism is an expression of hope (a concept inexplicable through any category of empirical science), I believe he has more reason then he acknowledges to embrace religion’s report of an unseen world about which science knows nothing,
Perhaps his optimism may yet extend that far.
In summary, though, an engaging, pleasurable story and storyteller.
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- Iron Duke
- 01-28-23
The Meaning of Life
Clearly read and interesting. Science and medicine interspersed with details about the author’s life and impending death.
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- bookophil
- 01-25-23
Informative but rambling réflexions on prostate cancer
Dr. Marsh discusses his reaction to a diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer at age 70. Being a neurosurgeon, he goes into great scientific detail on many occasions. There are also many philosophic digressions. In some ways this book is a memoir, which is fitting since the diagnosis leads to contemplating the proximity of death.
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- Mark
- 02-21-23
interesting thoughts of mortality
Dr. Henry Marsh finds himself on the receiving side of a cancer diagnosis in this short memoir. This is about hours long, with the first two giving us mostly general information about Marsh and his thoughts on humanity. His cancer diagnosis and musings on mortality took up much of the rest of this book. This book got my interest in large part because I could in some way relate to his experience in my own life. This book is about living, and living with death. I liked this candid memoir of old age of preparing for the end of life.
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- Catherine Dundon
- 06-04-23
Aging
I am a 70 yr old doctor now looking back on my life and career. Very insightful.
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- William A. Friedl
- 02-04-23
Interesting Story Until It Wanders Off
Dr Marsh tells an interesting story of his life and recent treatment for prostate cancer. I was an empathetic listener, having experienced a similar treatment for prostate cancer in 2022, and Dr Marsh did a good job of describing the radiation and chemical treatment regime. His writing style is breezy and pleasant and I enjoyed his narration. The story runs out of interest (to me) toward the end with somewhat tedious narration about the tales he recited to his granddaughters during the COVID 19 lockdown. After that, Dr Marsh’s tale just sort of peters out and ends. A reasonable listen but not a “keeper” in my opinion.
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- Johanna M Sindelar
- 05-11-23
Honest memoir
Sympathetic and candid reflections of an aging doctor, now cancer patient. Resonated with my personal, current trials of aging and illness.
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