Brain Surgeon

Renowned neurosurgeon Keith Black combines a dramatic narrative with fascinating scientific insights to create a compelling look at one man's journey into the brain.

Virtually every day Dr. Keith Black, a world-renowned neuro-surgeon and scientist, enters the treacherous territory he calls "tiger country": the unimaginably intricate and challenging art of performing brain surgery, where one wrong move, one small mistake, can mean the end of his patient's life. In BRAIN SURGEON, Dr. Black use the extraordinarily dramatic stories of some of his patients to illustrate fascinating details of the brain's inner workings and the techniques he uses to extend lives at the outer edge of science. In this compelling narrative, he also offers readers a rare look inside the remarkable mind of a master surgeon who literally holds the lives of his patients in his hands and in his heart.

Dr. Black has appeared on the cover of Time magazine as one of America's Heroes of Medicine, was named one of the 21 Most Important People of the 21st Century by Esquire, and was nominated as a Medical Marvel in the CNN Heroes special report. He has appeared on the cover of Newsweek International and in Essence, Turning Point, and Los Angeles magazine. Books that combine both the clinical and human aspects of medicine are huge sellers, as seen by the success of such titles as How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD, (Houghton-Mifflin, 3/07), which sold over 110,000 hardcover copies and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (Touchstone, 1/85), which has sold hundreds of thousands of trade paperback copies. Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Black has pioneered research on enabling chemotherapy drugs to be delivered directly to the tumor as well as other groundbreaking methods to fight and prevent brain tumors.