Everything in its place : first loves and last tales / by Oliver Sacks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurologists--Biography.

Neurologists.

Neurology.

Physicians.

Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.

Sacks, Oliver.

Medical Subjects:

Neurology.

Physicians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 274 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Summary:

"In this final volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life, as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Everything in Its Place brings together writings--many never before published--on a rich variety of topics. 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 included here, Sacks considers the enigmas of depression, psychosis, and schizophrenia for the first time, and in others he returns to conditions that have long fascinated him: Tourette's syndrome, aging, 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 final 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."--Dust jacket.

"From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passions for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories, his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. Everything In Its Place is a celebration of Sacks's myriad interests, all told with his characteristic compassion, erudition, and luminous prose"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

FIRST LOVES. Water babies ; Remembering South Kensington ; First love ; Humphry Davy, poet of chemistry ; Libraries ; A journey inside the brain

CLINICAL TALES. Cold storage ; Neurological dreams ; Nothingness ; Seeing God in the third millennium ; Hiccups and other curious behaviors ; Travels with Lowell ; Urge ; The catastrophe ; Dangerously well ; Tea and toast ; Telling ; The aging brain ; Kuru ; A summer of madness ; The lost virtues of the asylum

LIFE CONTINUES. Anybody out there? ; Clupeophilia ; Colorado Springs revisited ; Botanists on Park ; Greetings from the Island of Stability ; Reading the fine print ; The elephant's gait ; Orangutan ; Why we need gardens ; Night of the ginkgo ; Filter fish ; Life continues.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-263) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, author. Everything in its place

ISBN:

9780451492890

0451492897

OCLC:

1047618242