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Oliver Sacks

Everything in its Place


First Loves and Last Tales
Air Iri OME. 2019. 288 S. 234 mm
Verlag/Jahr: MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL; PICADOR 2019
ISBN: 1-509-82182-1 (1509821821)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-509-82182-2 (9781509821822)

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A remarkable celebration of Sacks´s varied interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose.
From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks´s broad range of interests-from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer´s.

Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sacks´s myriad interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose.
Sacks, Oliver

Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queen´s College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco´s Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings.

Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as ´the poet laureate of medicine´, and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.