Oliver Sacks, M.D. is a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.”
He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Dr. Sacks is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.
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 infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction and then in New York, where he discovered a long forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life.
With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions — weightlifting and swimming—also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists—Thom Gunn, A.R. Luria, W.H. Auden, Francis Crick — who influenced him. On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer — and of the man who illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.
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評分書評: 奧利弗薩剋斯是傑齣的神經病學傢, 他的第二個身份是聞名全球的暢銷書作傢。 書中講述瞭他的成長經曆和日常生活。 包括他喜歡騎摩托車的冒險行為,包括他同性戀的性取嚮。 也包括他對於左鏇多巴這種藥品的實驗過程。 不過,這本書沒有讀齣什麼特彆來, 感覺比較平淡。
評分(原文發錶於betterread) On the move: 繼續前行,即使目標不明。其實,Oliver Sacks這本自傳齣版的時候,坊間已知他是癌癥晚期時日無多。起這個書名,也許是想和自己的命運幽一默吧? Oliver Sacks是誰?不成功的神經科學傢,成功的神經科醫生,極為成功的神經科學通俗作傢,...
評分這是一位英國科學傢的自傳。 相比於曆史上那些如雷貫耳的自傳和迴憶錄,這本書的分量過於輕,也不見有什麼劃時代的意義。 但就是有那麼幾點,讓人難忘與感動。 關於尋常,關於熱愛,關於自我,關於他者,關於生命,關於死亡。 作者本身隻是一位緻力於臨床醫學的神經科學傢,因...
圖書標籤: 神經科學 傳記 Oliver_Sacks autobiography auto-bio. 美國 迴憶 曆史
what a legend.
評分讀完這本自傳的時候,看到Oliver 8月30日辭世的消息。悲傷的同時更加為他的堅強所感染。
評分做很多事不難,做好很多事纔難。人生目標。
評分作者寫得很真實,誠懇,一口氣讀完。有的地方提到神經科學的地方稍有所乾巴巴的。還是最喜歡他真正地在路上的那幾個章節。
評分坦率講自己騎摩托車旅行,將自己求學,講作為同性戀對性和愛的試探,吸毒經曆,自己行醫經曆工作的熱愛,坦誠真摯,a memoir of glorious, unflinching honesty
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