Book Oliver Wolf Sacks (set of 2 books)
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Book 1: Headlong. The Story of a Life
«Headlong. The Story of a Life was named the best book of the year by National Public Radio, the San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Men's Journal, and other media. The New York Times called it a landmark book. Sacks is also known as the author of the world bestsellers The Awakening, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Migraine, and others.
Topic
Memoirs, biography, medicine, psychology, psychiatry, travel.
About the book
«Headlong» is a memoir by Oliver Sacks, which he wrote, already knowing that he was terminally ill. In this book, the author appears in unusual roles for a doctor and frankly tells about the vicissitudes of life as a shy introvert who, through a combination of personal and professional experience, acquires a unique sensitivity to the condition of other people (and not only his patients). Sachs recalls the most important events, significant meetings, important places and people who made him who he is today.
Who the book is for
For the widest possible range of readers, anyone interested in psychology, travel, and the lives of famous people. Why this book is a surprise Death was not a surprise to Sachs. He turned it into literature, because as soon as he learned of his fatal diagnosis, he immediately began writing notes about his life, which eventually led to this book. In this book, Sacks appears to the reader sincere, honest and without any masks.
About the author
Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) was a British neurologist, professor at New York University, one of the most famous popularisers of medical science. Sacks became world famous for his books in which he described unusual cases of mental disorders of his patients (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, An Anthropologist on Mars, Hallucinations). In 2001, he was awarded the Thomas L. Lewis Prize for books about science. Sacks's 1990 book The Awakening was made into a film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. The New York Times aphoristically called him the "poet laureate of modern medicine."
The book «Awakening» by the American neurologist and neuropsychologist Oliver Sacks is a real story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the epidemic immediately after the First World War. The author presents the case histories of 20 patients. Frozen in a trance-like state, these men and women spent several decades in this state, until 1969. The young doctor Sachs decided to use a new drug. The results were both miraculous and catastrophic. Within weeks, sometimes overnight, Sachs' patients were awakened from decades of immobility. They woke up to a world that had completely changed over the years. Some of them were able to adapt, while others could not cope with the changes in the world and slipped back into their frozen state on their own. The doctor himself is amazed at how they managed to survive such torment. He ponders the question of what reserves of our body have kept them strong all these years. Together with the reader, the author traces all the stages of the disease, its «awakening» and relapse.
This book is a tragic story of an attempt to heal and reconcile with the disease, of the suffering and loneliness of people who were considered incurable and therefore forgotten for many years. It will attract the attention of people interested in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, medical professionals and the general public who are interested in medicine, psychology and the possibilities of the human brain.