A Leg to Stand On

Autor*innen

• Oliver Sacks

Parameter

• 176 Seiten
• 7 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Biografien & Memoiren
• Medizin & Gesundheit
• Psychologie
• Sachliteratur

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When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position -- that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but straightforward to fix; the psychological effects, however, were far less easy to predict, explain, or resolve: Sacks experienced paralysis and an inability to perceive his leg as his own, instead seeing it as some kind of alien and inanimate object, over which he had no control. A Leg to Stand On is both an account of Sacks' ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Einband: Paperback