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Uncle Tungsten Oliver Sacks

Uncle Tungsten von Oliver Sacks

Uncle Tungsten Oliver Sacks


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Zusammenfassung

In Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks turns his trained analytical eye on a startling new subject - himself. A startling and fascinating memoir.

Uncle Tungsten Zusammenfassung

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Oliver Sacks

This memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English childhood - seasoned by a childish passion for science - but it is told from the intimate and revelatory perspective of one of the most important and humane writers on psychology alive today. Oliver Sacks has the literary artistry of WH Auden and the intellectual rigour and questioning mind of Stephen Jay Gould. The world authority in his field, this is a remarkable insight into the mind and background of one of the finest and most accessible scientists today. Case history as literature, in the most personal, delightful and fascinating way possible.

Über Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings. Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.

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GOR001271247
9780330390279
0330390279
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Oliver Sacks
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Pan Macmillan
2001-10-29
336
Winner of Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Non-fiction 2002 Short-listed for Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Non-fiction 2002
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