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Sacks, Oliver Wolf was born on July 9, 1933 in London. Son of Samuel and Muriel Elsie (Landau) Sacks. Came to the United States, 1960.
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Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey when he finds that his leg uncannily no longer feels part of his body. Sacks's brilliant description of his crisis and eventual recovery is not only an illuminating examination of the experience of patienthood and the inner nature of illness and health but also a fascinating exploration of the physical basis of identity.
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Oliver Sacks travels once again in search of human diversity, to the South Pacific atoll of Pingelap, where he finds that a high proportion of the population is colourblind and investigates the causes and effects of that condition. This book explores the islands, the people and their case studies.
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In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: 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; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.”
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"Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travelers to inimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of several such travelers---including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating and a man who confronts the challenges of having his vision restored after more than forty years of blindness. The exploration of these individual lives is not one that can be made in a consulting room or office, and Sacks has taken off his white coat and deserted the hospital, by and large, to join his subjects in their own environments. He feels, he says, in part like a neuroanthropologist, but most of all like a physician, summoned here and there to make house calls, house calls at the far border of experience. In his lucid and compelling reconstructions fo the mental acts we take for granted---the act of seeing the transport of memory, empathy for others---Oliver Sacks provokes anew a sense of wonder at who we are." "Oliver Sacks in the author of the bestselling titles The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings." from case
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Oliver Sacks Collection 4 Books Set Brand New Titles in This Set: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, The Mind's Eye, Seeing Voices,
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('Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy ...anyone with...)
'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy ...anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind; and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Along the way, he re-encounters the beautiful, primitive island cycad trees -- and these become the starting point for a meditation on time and evolution, disease and adaptation, and islands both real and metaphorical. 'This is a wonderful book, made better by Sacks' exceptionally gentle descriptions of patients. He also captures the unimaginable sadness of the Pacific' Spectator 'Dr Sacks is an elegant and beguiling writer, and when he describes a condition such as achromatopsia (total colour-blindness), he is not content merely to describe it from the outside, but he tries to imagine what the world is like to a person with the condition' Sunday Telegraph 'There is no one at the present time who writes like Oliver Sacks ...He is a superb clinician who can take a seemingly arid and obscure medical condition, and convert it into a moving, personal odyssey, a testament of tenacity, courage and will' Literary Review
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Un peintre perd, à la suite d'un accident, la perception des couleurs ; un chirurgien, atteint du syndrome de La Tourette, est en proie à des tics compulsifs, sauf quand il opère ; une autiste, pour qui le monde humain est incompréhensible, se spécialise dans l'étude des animaux. Les personnes atteintes de tels troubles neurologiques ressemblent à des voyageurs traversant d'inimaginables contrées. Sept de ces voyageurs sont présentés ici. Pour les comprendre, l'auteur est allé à leur rencontre, et a partagé, pendant un moment, leur vie. Les sept histoires qu'il relate sont paradoxales, car elles montrent que les troubles neurologiques ne sont pas seulement des maladies - ils ouvrent des mondes nouveaux, certes étranges pour l'expérience commune, mais où se réalisent d'autres richesses, seulement potentielles chez l'homme normal. Le peintre qui a perdu la perception des couleurs va créer un monde artistique monochrome, à la beauté insolite et profonde ; et l'autiste continuera à se heurter aux arcanes de la socialité humaine - mais en s'y sentant, nous dit-elle, comme un anthropologue sur Mars .
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(The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically...)
The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange visual hallucinations and distortions of space, time, and body image which migraineurs sometimes experience. Portrayals of these uncanny states have found their way into many works of art, from the heavenly visions of Hildegard von Bingen to Alice in Wonderland. Dr. Oliver Sacks argues that migraine cannot be understood simply as an illness, but must be viewed as a complex condition with a unique role to play in each individual's life.
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Oliver Sacks has been described (by The New York Times Book Review) as "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century," and his books, including the medical classics Migraine and Awakenings, have been widely praised by critics from W. H. Auden to Harold Pinter to Doris Lessing. In his last book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Dr. Sacks undertook a fascinating journey into the world of the neurologically impaired, an exploration that Noel Perrin in the Chicago Sun-Times called "wise, compassionate, and very literate . . . the kind that restore(s) one's faith in humanity." Now, with Seeing Voices, Dr. Sacks takes us into the world of the deaf, a world he explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers everywhere. Seeing Voices is a journey: a journey first into the history of deaf people, the (often outrageous) ways in which they were seen and treated in the past, and the new understanding that started to dawn in the eighteenth century; and a journey into the present situation of the deaf—a situation which, all too often, is still one of misunderstanding and mistreatment. Dr. Sacks writes of how he has come to see deaf people "in a new light, as a people, with a distinctive language, sensibility, and culture of their own." Indeed, it is only in the last ten years that the extraordinary and beautiful visual-gestural language of the deaf—Sign—has been fully recognized as a language, as linguistically complete, rich, and expressive as any spoken language, a language with its own distinctive basis in the brain. The one overwhelming peril for the deaf is to be kept from achieving language competence of any kind, to be denied access to both Sign and speech, and that tragedy is completely preventable by early exposure to Sign. Sign is also social and cultural. It lies at the heart of the many manifestions of "deaf consciousness" in the past twenty years, among them the remarkable uprising of the deaf students at Gallaudet University in 1988. The revolt gained international attention and showed the world decisively that deaf people have "come of age" and no longer want to be treated as "disabled." Dr. Sacks gives a vivid personal account of the revolt and ponders its implications for the future. All his encounters in the course of this exhilarating journey raise issues of surprising depth and richness which, though of paramount interest to deaf people and all concerned with them, also extend powerfully to the human condition in general.
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In his most extraordinary book, the author recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.
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A collection of four books. owner name written on first page. Slight shelf and edge wear. Pages are clean. Binding is tight.
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(Olivier Sacks décrit dans ce livre les affections les plu...)
Olivier Sacks décrit dans ce livre les affections les plus bizarres, celles qui atteignent un homme dans son corps, comme dans sa personnalité la plus intime et dans l image qu il a de lui-même. Il nous fait ainsi pénétrer dans un royaume peuplé de créatures étranges : un marin qui ayant perdu la notion du temps, vit prisonnier d un instant perpétuel, un homme qui se croit un chien renifle l odeur du monde, un musicien qui prend pour un chapeau la tête de sa femme, et bien d autres encore.L auteur pose aussi les jalons d une médecine nouvelle, plus complète, traitant le corps mais ne refusant pas de guérir aussi l esprit, et même l âme.
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'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories' Independent on Sunday As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us. Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre; patients for whom disorientation and alienation but also adaptation are inescapable facts of life. 'Sacks' great gift is his capacity to place himself in the position of his subjects, to see the world the way they see it and to empathize with their condition with great compassion but without patronage or pity' Daily Telegraph 'Writing simply and beautifully, Sacks uses individual case histories to reveal the infinite complexities of the human mind' Daily Mail
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Trade-size softcover, includes all 4 books (a 4-in-1 book)
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Four books by Oliver Sacks in one volume, with a new preface by the author. Printed by Quality Paperback Book Club in 1990, softcover. Over 1,080 pages. Books are printed as gallied by their original publishers.
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Sacks, Oliver Wolf was born on July 9, 1933 in London. Son of Samuel and Muriel Elsie (Landau) Sacks. Came to the United States, 1960.
Bachelor, U. Oxford, 1954; Master of Arts, Bachelor of Medicine, BCh, Middlesex Hospital, London, 1958; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Georgetown University, 1990; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), College Staten Island, CUNY, 1991; Doctor of Science (honorary), Tufts U., 1991; Doctor of Science (honorary), New York Medical College, 1991.
Intern in medicine, surgery and neurology, Middlesex Hospital, 1958-1960; rotating intern, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco, 1961-1962; resident in neurology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1962-1965; I.D. fellow in neuropathology and neurochemistry, Albert Einstein College Medicine, New York City, 1965-1966; instructor neurology, Albert Einstein College Medicine, New York City, 1966-1975; assistant professor, Albert Einstein College Medicine, New York City, 1975-1978; associate professor, Albert Einstein College Medicine, New York City, 1978-1985; clinical professor neurology, Albert Einstein College Medicine, New York City, since 1985. Consultant, speaker, lecturer in field. Honorary lectureships in field.
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(Oliver Sacks travels once again in search of human divers...)
(In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinica...)
(Olivier Sacks décrit dans ce livre les affections les plu...)
(In his most extraordinary book, the author recounts the s...)
(Oliver Sacks Collection 4 Books Set Brand New Titles in T...)
('An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the m...)
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("Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are trav...)
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Member American Academy Neurology (presidential citation 1991), American Academy Arts & Letters, New York State Medical Society, New York Institute for the Humanities, Alpha Omega Alpha.