The Case Of Dr Sachs
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1998
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.
The Mind S Eye
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-06-16
The Mind S Eye written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-16 with Literary Collections categories.
Navigating the World with Impaired Vision: Stories of Resilience and Adaptation In The Mind's Eye, renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks explores the fascinating ways in which the brain perceives and interprets visual information, and the remarkable adaptations that occur when this process is disrupted. Through captivating case studies, Sacks introduces us to individuals who have lost the ability to recognize faces, sense three-dimensional space, read, or even see, yet manage to navigate the world and communicate with others despite these challenges. As Sacks delves into the complexities of the visual system and the brain's incredible plasticity, he reveals the myriad ways in which humans are capable of rising to the challenges posed by visual impairments. The Mind's Eye is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the brain's extraordinary ability to adapt and compensate in the face of adversity. ‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent.’ – Observer
Awakenings
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-05-29
Awakenings written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-29 with Psychology categories.
The classic account of survivors of the sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I—and their return to the world after decades of “sleep.” • From the distinguished neurologist and the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat “One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." —The Washington Post Awakenings—which inspired the major motion picture starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams—is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.
On The Move
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-04-28
On The Move written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “wonderful memoir” (Los Angeles Times) about a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer, a man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human. • “Intimate.... Brim[s] with life and affection.” —The New York Times When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks writes about the passions that have driven his life—from motorcycles and weight lifting to neurology and poetry. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists—W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick—who have influenced his work.
Musicophilia
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-09-23
Musicophilia written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-23 with Psychology categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. “Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind.” —The New York Times In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable.
The Case Of Dr Sachs
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Author : Martin Winckler
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
The Case Of Dr Sachs written by Martin Winckler and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Fiction categories.
Bruno Sachs is a country doctor who makes house calls and feels deeply for his patients. There are broken bones, unwanted pregnancies, people without the will to live, a friend dying of cancer. His pity for his fellow creatures is both his motivating force and his own untreatable condition. Among the deaths, love affairs, and small town gossip, a love story emerges at the heart of the novel-between Dr. Sachs and a young woman upon whom he once performed an abortion. The Case of Dr. Sachs is a novel filled with voices of silent suffering and arias of quiet joy, and one dedicated to the notion that literature, like medicine, can save lives.
Everything In Its Place
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2019-04-23
Everything In Its Place written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-23 with Science categories.
From the legendary author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: a volume of essays on everything from primordial life and the mysteries of the brain to the ancient ginkgo and the power of the written word. "Magical . . . [Everything in Its Place] showcases the neurologist's infinitely curious mind."—People Magazine In this volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions that defined his life--both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Everything in Its Place brings together writings on a rich variety of topics. Why do humans need gardens? How, and when, does a physician tell his patient she has Alzheimer's? What is social media doing to our brains? In several of the compassionate case histories included here, we see Sacks consider the enigmas of depression, psychosis, and schizophrenia for the first time. In others, he returns to conditions that have long fascinated him: Tourette's syndrome, aging, dementia, and hallucinations. In counterpoint to these elegant investigations of what makes us human, this volume also includes pieces that celebrate Sacks's love of the natural world--and his final meditations on life in the twenty-first century.
Seeing Voices
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Seeing Voices written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Social Science categories.
A neurologist investigates the world of the deaf, examining their past and present treatment at the hands of society, and assesses the value and significance of sign language.
An Anthropologist On Mars
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-11-14
An Anthropologist On Mars written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-14 with Psychology categories.
From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality. Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.
Uncle Tungsten
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-12-11
Uncle Tungsten written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time—a riveting memoir of his youth and his love affair with science, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories. “A rare gem…. Fresh, joyous, wistful, generous, and tough-minded.” —The New York Times Book Review Long before Oliver Sacks became the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals—also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, Sacks chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks’ extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his “Uncle Tungsten,” whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes—in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.