Oliver Sacks

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The River of Consciousness

Beschreibung

"Oliver Sacks is best known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neurological conditions at the far borderlands of human experience. But he was equally fascinated by the issues and ideas of all the sciences. That wide-ranging passion informs the perspective of this book, in which he takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes--above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions they explored--the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness--lie at the heart of science and of this book. The River of Consciousness demonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human."--Back cover.

Autor

Oliver Sacks was a physician, writer, and professor of neurology. Born in London in 1933, he moved to New York City in 1965, where he launched his medical career and began writing case studies of his patients. Called the "poet laureate of medicine" by The New York Times, Sacks is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, Awakenings (which inspired an Oscar-nominated film and a play by Harold Pinter), On the Move, and Gratitude. He was the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2008 for services to medicine. He died in 2015.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9780804171007
• ISBN-10: 0804171009
• Artikelnr.: 52611532

Rezensionen

Reading a book published after its authors death, especially if he is as prodigiously alive on every page as Oliver Sacks, as curious, avid and thrillingly fluent, brings both the joy of hearing from him again, and the regret of knowing it will likely be the last time . . . [The] combination of wonder, passion and gratitude never seemed to flag in Sacks's life; everything he wrote was lit with it. But it was his openness to new ideas and experiences, and his vision of change as the most human of biological processes that synthesized all of his work Nicole Krauss The New York Times Book Review