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On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks

By:

Sacks, Oliver, (1933 - 2015)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 397 p. : illus. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780385352543

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 SAC

Contents:

On the move -- Leaving the nest -- San Francisco -- Muscle beach -- Out of reach -- Awakenings -- The bull on the mountain -- A matter of identity -- City island -- Voyages -- A new vision of the mind -- Home.

Abstract: Physician and writer Oliver Sacks recounts his experiences as a young neurologist; his physical passions - weight lifting and swimming; 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, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick - who influenced him.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 SAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Non fiction		029469

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Physician and writer Oliver Sacks recounts his experiences as a young neurologist; his physical passions - weight lifting and swimming; 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, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick - who influenced him.