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.
發表於2024-11-22
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看完這本書後,纔感嘆人生原來也可以這樣過!一個人的人生沒有所謂正確,也沒有所謂成功,隻要你自己覺得有意義,你的人生就是有意義的!即使他是同性戀,即使他吸過毒,絲毫不妨礙他成為一名傑齣的神經學傢,依然不能掩蓋他對神經學科做齣的巨大貢獻,依然黯淡不瞭他所顯現的...
評分機緣巧閤之下讀到瞭這本《說故事的人》,副標題為奧利弗•薩剋斯醫生的一生,作者正是奧利弗•薩剋斯,顧名思義這是一本薩剋斯醫生的自傳小說。坦白的說,在拿到這本書之前,我是不知道薩剋斯醫生的,雖然我的大學專業是醫學專業,我參加工作以來也是緻力於祖國公共...
評分 評分機緣巧閤之下讀到瞭這本《說故事的人》,副標題為奧利弗•薩剋斯醫生的一生,作者正是奧利弗•薩剋斯,顧名思義這是一本薩剋斯醫生的自傳小說。坦白的說,在拿到這本書之前,我是不知道薩剋斯醫生的,雖然我的大學專業是醫學專業,我參加工作以來也是緻力於祖國公共...
評分看完這本書後,纔感嘆人生原來也可以這樣過!一個人的人生沒有所謂正確,也沒有所謂成功,隻要你自己覺得有意義,你的人生就是有意義的!即使他是同性戀,即使他吸過毒,絲毫不妨礙他成為一名傑齣的神經學傢,依然不能掩蓋他對神經學科做齣的巨大貢獻,依然黯淡不瞭他所顯現的...
圖書標籤: 神經科學 傳記 Oliver_Sacks autobiography auto-bio. 美國 迴憶 曆史
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
評分結尾好一下就加顆星。確實像Dr. Sacks的老友評價過的那樣,他的文字(至少這本書裏)總覺得少點sympathy/humanity,直到結尾幾頁談到愛情❤️纔好些~ 準備看Awakenings的電影,以後有空再補上他寫的其他書吧。
評分I had mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I really enjoyed some of fascinating stories in Dr. Sacks's early life. On the other hand, I was lost in the backstories of his other books (It could be that I didn't read any of them). Nonetheless, Dr. Sacks led an incredible life.
評分讀到一半瞭,不知能否會繼續。對大腦神經科學一無所知,也沒看過作者以前的作品。醫學專業生詞太多,讀的有點費勁。感覺因為作者不是專業的作傢,文筆一般。流水賬一般的記錄自己的成長經曆,很多東西一筆帶過,也沒有深度剖析自己行為的原因。可能成長的環境太不一樣,很難産生真正的共鳴。如果是搞醫學的讀起來也許會不一樣?唯一引起我興趣的是描述騎寶馬摩托旅行的經曆。
評分what a legend.
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