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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:

Hallucinations (MP3)

Written by:

Oliver Sacks 

Read by:

Oliver Sacks; Dan Woren 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

9 hours 50 minutes 

MP3 size:

406 MB 

Published:

April 28 2019 

Available Date:

April 28 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781529011920 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Medicine; Psychology; Science & Technology 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Macmillan audio 

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#1 bestselling author

The king of pop-neurology reveals how hallucinations are not limited to the insane and what mind-altering experiences reveal about our brains.

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness or injury. In some conditions, hallucinations can lead to religious epiphanies or even the feeling of leaving one's own body. Humans have always sought such life-changing visions, and for thousands of years have used hallucinogenic compounds to achieve them. In Hallucinations, with his usual elegance, curiosity and compassion, Dr Oliver Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organisation and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all, a vital part of the human condition.

'Affable, affectionate, respectful and smart, Sacks could be the David Attenborough of the human mind.’
The Independent on Sunday

'An enthralling, often guiltily comic insight into the pecularities the brain can conjure.'
Irish Examiner

'Sacks is at his most engaging when he brings the ostensibly strange into the realm of normality ... This is where Sacks triumphs.'
Daily Telegraph