Everything in Its Place 英文原版 奥利弗·萨克斯：一切就绪 Oliver Sacks

基本信息

By (author) Oliver Sacks

Format Paperback | 320 pages

Dimensions 130 x 197 x 20mm | 202g

Publication date 09 Jul 2020

Publisher Pan MacMillan

Imprint PICADOR

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Main Market Ed.

ISBN10 1509821805

ISBN13 9781509821808

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

From the bestselling author of On Gratitude and On the Move.

In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life - both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Why do humans need gardens? How, and when, does a physician tell his patient she has Alzheimer's? What is social media doing to our brains?

In several of the compassionate case histories collected here, Sacks considers for the first time the enigmas of depression, psychosis, and schizophrenia, and in others he returns to conditions that have long fascinated him: Tourette's syndrome, ageing, dementia, and hallucinations. In counterpoint to these elegant investigations of what makes us human, this volume also includes pieces that celebrate Sacks's love of the natural world - and his last meditations on life in the twenty-first century. Everything in Its Place gives us an intimate portrait of a master writer and thinker at work.

摘自《感激之情》和《移动中》的畅销书。

在这本充满活力的书中，奥利弗·萨克斯（Oliver Sacks）考察了自己一生的许多激情-既是从事人类生存核心问题的医生，又是通通各种科学的多才多艺的人。人类为什么需要花园？医生如何以及何时告诉患者她患有阿尔茨海默氏病？社交媒体对我们的大脑有什么作用？

在这里收集的一些富有同情心的案例历史中，萨克斯第一次考虑了抑郁症，精神病和精神分裂症的谜团，而在另一些案例中，他又回到了令他着迷的病境：图雷特氏综合症，衰老，痴呆和幻觉。为了与这些使我们成为人类的优雅研究相反，本册还包括一些庆祝萨克斯对自然世界的热爱以及他对二十世纪生命的最后沉思的作品。一切都在我们面前，为我们提供了工作中的主要作家和思想家的亲密肖像。

作者简介

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.

Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.

奥利弗·萨克斯（Oliver Sacks）于1933年出生于伦敦，在牛津大学皇后学院接受教育。在移居纽约之前，他在旧金山的锡安山医院和加州大学洛杉矶分校完成了医学培训，之后不久在纽约遇见了他将在他的《觉醒》一书中写到的患者。

萨克斯博士花了近五十年的时间担任神经病学家，并写了许多有关患者奇怪的神经系统疾病和状况的书，包括《戴帽子的妻子的男人》，《音乐迷》和《幻觉》。《纽约时报》称他为“医学诗人”，多年来，他获得了许多奖项，包括古根海姆基金会，美国国家科学基金会，美国艺术与文学学院以及英国皇家学院的荣誉。医师。2008年，他被任命为大英帝国司令。他的回忆录，上举，在不久他去世前在2015年8月公布