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A Leg to Stand On (eBook)

Artikelnummer: 978-0-593-31101-1
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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 like 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.

This 1984 classic is now available in an expanded edition with a new foreword, written by Kate Edgar, executive director of the Oliver Sacks Foundation.

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 like 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.

This 1984 classic is now available in an expanded edition with a new foreword, written by Kate Edgar, executive director of the Oliver Sacks Foundation.

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VerlagKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
EinbandAdobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr2020
Seitenangabe256 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Masse4'061 KB
PlattformEPUB
AutorSacks, Oliver

Über den Autor Oliver Sacks

Hainer Kober, geboren 1942, lebt in Soltau. Er hat u.a. Werke von Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Littell, Georges Simenon und Oliver Sacks übersetzt. Oliver Sacks, geboren 1933 in London, war Professor für Neurologie und Psychiatrie an der Columbia University. Er wurde durch die Publikation seiner Fallgeschichten weltberühmt. Nach seinen Büchern wurden mehrere Filme gedreht, darunter «Zeit des Erwachens» (1990) mit Robert de Niro und Robin Williams. Oliver Sacks starb am 30. August 2015 in New York City. Bei Rowohlt erschienen unter anderem seine Bücher «Awakenings - Zeit des Erwachens», «Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte», «Der Tag, an dem mein Bein fortging», «Der einarmige Pianist» und «Drachen, Doppelgänger und Dämonen». 2015 veröffentlichte er seine Autobiographie «On the Move».

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