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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? - A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks (Hardcover)
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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? - A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R571
Discovery Miles 5 710
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The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks
in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for
his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr.
Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings - the account of his
long-dormant patients' miraculous but troubling return to life in a
Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate
success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. Over
the ensuing four years, the two men worked closely together until,
for wracking personal reasons, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the
profile, a request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained
close friends, however, across the next thirty years and then, just
as Sacks was dying, he urged Weschler to take up the project once
again. This book is the result of that entreaty. Weschler sets
Sacks's brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid
relief, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks's capacious
Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply;
composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife
for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days;
helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging
intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment
that failed to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous
specificity of the individual human soul. And all the while he is
pouring out a stream of glorious, ribald, hilarious, and often
profound conversation that establishes him as one of the great
talkers of the age. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our
preeminent romantic scientist, a self-described "clinical
ontologist" whose entire practice revolved around the single
fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How
are you? Which is to say, How do you be? A question which Weschler,
with this book, turns back on the good doctor himself.
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