![]() He also offers odes to libraries, swimming, museums, the necessity of gardens, and the majesty of the ginkgo. ![]() ![]() In a lighter vein, Sacks discusses his early fascination with fossil botany and chemistry. While underscoring the physician's role in some of the most intimate decisions of a patient's life, the author discusses the aging brain mania as a biological rather than psychological condition the various manifestations of dementia and the folly of a “premature sense of impotence and doom” that can accompany a diagnosis of Alzheimer's. There is an unusually intriguing discussion of the many sides of Tourette's syndrome as well as a detailed analysis of the misleadingly named “bi-polar” disorder. ![]() The acclaimed neurologist and author’s spaciousness of mind, humanity, and attachment to all life has its last showcase in this posthumously published collection.Īssembled here are a wealth of previously published and unreleased pieces by the gifted neurologist (1933-2015), justly called the “poet laureate of science.” As in most of his books, Sacks ( The River of Consciousness, 2017, etc.) includes clinical case studies from his medical practice. ![]()
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