Publisher |
Pan Macmillan |
Publication Year |
2008 |
ISBN-13 |
9780330418386 |
ISBN-10 |
9780330418386 |
Binding |
Paperback |
Number of Pages |
448 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Dimensions (Cms) |
13 x 2.9 x 19.7 |
Weight (grms) |
363 |
‘A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us.’ Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks’ compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we understand our own minds. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people – those struck by affliction, unusual talent and even, in one case, by lightning – to show not only that music occupies more areas of the brain than language does, but also that it can calm and organize, torment and heal
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings.
Oliver Sacks
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