Oliver Sacks

Letters (eBook, ePUB)

A New Yorker and New Statesman Book of the Year

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dr. Oliver Sacks - the self-described "philosophical physician" - wrote letters throughout his life: to his parents and his beloved Auntie Len, to friends and colleagues from London, Oxford, California, and around the world. The letters begin with Sacks' arrival in North America as a young man eager to make something of himself away , and carry us through his bumpy early career in medicine and the discovery of his writer's voice, outlining the doctor's developing interest in matters of sight and the musical brain which would shape the focus of his book Awakenings.

These letters chart Sacks' growth as not just a medical professional, but a man too: detailed here are the wilds of his weight-lifting, motorcycle-riding years; his many friendships and exchanges with writers, artists, and scientists (to say nothing of astronauts, botanists, and mathematicians), and his deep gratitude for all these relationships at the end of his life.

Introduced and edited by Kate Edgar, Sacks' longtime editor, the letters deliver a portrait of Sacks as he wrestles with the workings of the brain and mind. We see, through his eyes, the beginnings of modern neuroscience, following the thought processes of one of the great intellectuals of our time, whose words were unfailingly shaped with generosity and wonder toward other people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509821853
• Artikelnr.: 69205749

Autorenporträt

Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings.

Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008 he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.

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