Vintage Sacks
by Oliver Sacks
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Author: Oliver SacksEdition: Paperback
Published: 2004-01-06
ISBN: 1400033977
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Vintage
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Summary: 3 Stars
Vintage Sacks is a compilation of excerpts from his other books. Oliver Sacks is a neurologist who writes about science. His writings are for the lay person yet they give great insight into various aspects of human nature. He has excerpts from Awakenings about how a group of patients come out of catatonia with the administration of an experimental drug only to later go back into catatonia. He talks about tourette's syndrome, the deaf coummunity, an island of color blind people, and his boyhood experiences that led him to become a scientist.
The only reason this book gets such a low rating from me is because I feel you'd be better off getting the original books rather than excerpts from them. Nevertheless, he does frequently give insight into how his perspective on the subject has changed since the first publication of the material.
Summary of Vintage Sacks
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.“It is Dr. Sacks’s gift that he has found a way to enlarge our experience and understanding of what the human is.” —The Wall Street Journal
Dubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by The New York Times, Oliver Sacks is a practicing neurologist and a mesmerizing storyteller. His empathetic accounts of his patients’s lives—and wrily observed narratives of his own—convey both the extreme borderlands of human experience and the miracles of ordinary seeing, speaking, hearing, thinking, and feeling.
Vintage Sacks includes the introduction and case study “Rose R.” from Awakenings (the book that inspired the Oscar-nominated movie), as well as “A Deaf World” from Seeing Voices; “The Visions of Hildegard” from Migraine; excerpts from “Island Hopping” and “Pingelap” from The Island of the Colorblind; “A Surgeon’s Life” from An Anthropologist on Mars; and two chapters from Sacks’s acclaimed memoir Uncle Tungsten.
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