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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.
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A leg to stand on, Oliver Sacks
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- 2012
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- Title
- A leg to stand on
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Oliver Sacks
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0330507621
- ISBN13
- 9780330507622
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Health & Medicine, Medicine, Psychological Topics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Science, Stories, Medicine, Physiology, Personality Psychology, Medical environment, Patients
- Original title
- A Leg to Stand On
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- 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.