- Title:
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A Leg to Stand On
- Written by:
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Oliver Sacks
- Read by:
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Jonathan Davis; Oliver Sacks
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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7 hours 6 minutes
- Published:
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November 28 2018
- Available Date:
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November 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529011357
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Medicine; Psychology
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Price
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Renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks describes his struggle to recover from a mountain climbing accident and examines the effects of a neural injury on the sense of self.
When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position – that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but straightforward to fix; the psychological effects, however, were far less easy to predict, explain, or resolve: Sacks experienced paralysis and an inability to perceive his leg as his own, instead seeing it as some kind of alien and inanimate object, over which he had no control.
A Leg to Stand On is both an account of Sacks’s ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked.
'A remarkable, generous, vivid and thoroughly intelligent piece of writing.'
Sunday Times
'In every way a marvellously rich and thoughtful tale.'
The Sunday Telegraph
'... intensely personal, and affirms the community of human experience.'
The Observer