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Brain Surgery

Science Travel

The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery

A visit to Albania to watch Henry Marsh perform his pioneering surgery where the patient is kept awake during the removal of a tumor and the “brain is stimulated with an electric probe, so that the surgeon can see if and how the patient reacts.”

Karl Ove Knausgaard New York Times Magazine Dec 2015 45min Permalink