On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks.

  • Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Date:
2015
  • Books

About this work

Description

Physician and writer Oliver Sacks recounts his experiences as a young neurologist; his physical passions--weight lifting and swimming; his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists--Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick--who influenced him.

Publication/Creation

London : Picador, 2015.

Physical description

397 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

On the move -- Leaving the nest -- San Francisco -- Muscle beach -- Out of reach -- Awakenings -- The bull on the mountain -- A matter of identity -- City island -- Voyages -- A new vision of the mind -- Home.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Sacks)
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781447264057
  • 1447264053
  • 9781447264040
  • 1447264045