A leg to stand on / Oliver Sacks.

• The Mountain -- Becoming a Patient -- Limbo -- Quickening -- Solvitur Ambulando -- Convalescence -- Understanding.

• When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position -- that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but straightforward to fix; the psychological effects, however, were far less easy to predict, explain, or resolve: Sacks experienced paralysis and an inability to perceive his leg as his own, instead seeing it as some kind of alien and inanimate object, over which he had no control. A Leg to Stand On is both an account of Sacks' ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked. 

Ämnesord

People with disabilities  -- England -- Biography. (LCSH)

Neurologists  -- England -- Biography. (LCSH)

People with disabilities  -- England -- Biography. (LCSH)

Patients  -- psychology (MeSH)

Personnes handicapées  -- Angleterre -- Biographies. (Vedettes-matière)

Neurologues  -- Angleterre -- Biographies. (Vedettes-matière)

Personnes handicapées  -- Angleterre -- Biographies. (Vedettes-matière)

Neurologists.  (fast)

People with disabilities.  (fast)

England.  (fast)

Genre

Biographies.  (fast)

Personnamn

Sacks, Oliver W

Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.

Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.

Klassifikation

RC339.52.S23 (LCC)

362.1974830092 (DDC)

Vp (kssb/8 (machine generated))