オリヴァー・サックス

すべてが白黒に見える全色盲に陥った画家、激しいチックを起こすトゥレット症候群の外科医、「わたしは火星の人類学者のようだ」と漏らす自閉症の動物学者…

20世紀初頭に大流行した脳炎の後遺症で、言葉や感情、体の自由が奪われてしまった患者が、奇跡の新薬L-DOPAの投与によって目覚める。しかし体の機能回復に加え、人格まで変貌してしまうという怖い副作用が……。

妻の頭を帽子とまちがえてかぶろうとする音楽家、からだの感覚を失って姿勢が保てなくなってしまった若い母親…

人間の脳が生みだす驚くべき世界　〔見てしまう人びと〕宙を舞うハンカチ、15センチの小人、失った手足の感覚。現実には存在しないものを知覚する「幻覚」。

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations....

In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded....

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder....

A collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks' passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor....

Oliver Sacks siempre se ha sentido atraído por las islas, esos "experimentos de la naturaleza, lugares benditos y malditos por su singularidad geográfica, que albergan formas de vida únicas".

"El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero" se convirtió inmediatamente en un clásico y consagró a Oliver Sacks como...

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....

Awakenings - which inspired the motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the epidemic just after World War I....

Considerado uno de los grandes escritores clínicos del siglo, Oliver Sacks nos presenta en su último libro siete casos neurológicos que...

A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. With an introduction by Will Self, read by Oliver Sacks. If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot...

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . . From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is...

Un giorno, a New York, Oliver Sacks partecipa all'incontro organizzato da un batterista con una trentina di persone affette dalla sindrome di Tourette...

Fra il 1917 e il 1927, una grave epidemia di encefalite letargica (malattia del sonno) colpì quasi cinque milioni di persone. Una minuscola...

From the bestselling author of On Gratitude and On the Move. In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life – both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Why do humans need gardens?...

Dr. Oliver Sacks argues the migraine cannot be understood simply as an illness, but must be viewed as a complex condition with a unique role to play in each individual's life....

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury....