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Rated: 7 times. Average rating 4.71
Description
Physician and writer Oliver Sacks recounts his experiences as a young neurologist; his physical passions--weight lifting and swimming; 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--Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick--who influenced him.
Books by Oliver Sacks:
- Musicophilia (2008)
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (1998)
- A Leg to Stand On (1998)
- On the Move (2015)
