A leg to stand on

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.

A Leg to Stand on

Biographies & Memoirs

Sacks, Oliver W.

Community & Culture

Perennial

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Presents a series of stories about men and women who, representing both medical and literary oddities, raise fundamental questions about the nature of reality

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Harpercollins

A Leg to Stand On

'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' Observer 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' ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked. 'In every way a marvelously rich and thoughtful tale' Sunday Telegraph 'Oliver Sacks is a neurologist, a man of humane eloquence, and a genuine communicator. The value of this book lies in its willingness to combine the technical and the demonic, to admit poetry and philosophy and the religious impulse. It is also intensely personal, and affirms the community of human experience' Observer 'A remarkable, generous, vivid and thoroughly intelligent piece of writing' Sunday Times

Professionals & Academics

Perennial / HarperCollins

Describes the effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients with encephalitic Parkinsonism

Awakenings

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Awakenings (A Pelican book)

Penguin??Books

Here is the movie tie-in edition of bestselling author Oliver Sachs' classic account of victims of a decades-long sleeping sickness who were "awoken" to a new life by the use of the drug L-Dopa. The film, directed by Penny Marshall and starring Robert DeNiro and Robin WIlliams, is scheduled for release in the fall of 1990. 8 pages of photos. $50,000.

Awakenings,

DOUBLEDAY

Sacks, University of California Press, Berkeley.

MIGRAINE. EVOLUTION OF A COMMON DISORDER.

California

Migraine is the first book written by Oliver Sacks, a well-known neurologist and author with a practice in New York City. The book was written in 1967, mostly over a nine-day period, and first published in 1970.

Migraine: The Evolution of a Common Disorder

Univ. Of California Pr.

Summit Books

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