![]() ![]() ![]() “Extraordinarily touching-not lacking in his habitual energy and driven curiosity, but somehow vulnerable, even fragile. ![]() Published posthumously in 2019, Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sacks’s myriad interests, all told with his characteristic compassion, erudition, and luminous prose.įrom the celebrated case history of Spalding Gray that appeared in The New Yorker four months before his death to reflections on mental asylums from piercing accounts of Schizophrenia to a reminiscence of Robin Williams from the riveting tale of a medical colleague falling victim to Alzheimer’s to the healing power of gardens, and, from a critique of social media to the threat of climate change, this volume celebrates and reflects the wondrous curiosity of Oliver Sacks. Oliver Sacks, renowned scientist and storyteller, is adored by readers for his neurological case histories, his fascination and familiarity with human behaviour at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. “In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.” - Oliver SacksĪ final volume of essays that showcase Oliver Sacks’s broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer’s. ![]()
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