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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, bestselling author, and professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine'. He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Dr Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, before his death in August 2015.

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Title:

A Leg to Stand On

Written by:

Oliver Sacks 

Read by:

Jonathan Davis; Oliver Sacks 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

7 

Duration:

7 hours 6 minutes 

Published:

November 28 2018 

Available Date:

November 28 2018 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781529011357 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Medicine; Psychology 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Macmillan audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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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