The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 1998. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 2021-09-14. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of Awakenings and "poet laureate of medicine” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain extraordinary new skills. Featuring a new preface, Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.”
Musicophilia
Musicophilia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Musicophilia write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 2010-02-05. Musicophilia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us–we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions. In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us–a power that sometimes we control and at other times don’t. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer. This is a book that explores, like no other, the myriad dimensions of our experience of and with music.
Everything in Its Place
Everything in Its Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everything in Its Place write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 2019-04-23. Everything in Its Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Awakenings
Awakenings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awakenings write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 2013-05-29. Awakenings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.” • “One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time" (The Washington Post) from the distinguished neurologist and the national bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. 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.
