Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks urodził się w Londynie, kształcił się w Londynie, Oksfordzie i Kalifornii. Jest psychologiem i profesorem neurobiologii w Albert Einstein College of Medicine i autorem wielu książek. Zawsze był zafascynowany wyspami, ich odosobnieniem, niezwykłością, a przede wszystkim unikatowymi formami życia, dla których stanowią schronienie. Sacks...

In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual...

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture.In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and...

'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement' Sunday Telegraph Migraine is an age-old - the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years - and often debilitating condition, affecting a 'substantial...