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Letters
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Letters

Ab 18 J.
BookHardcover
Ranking44284inBelletristik
CHF46.90

Description

The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decades, collected here for the first time.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-5098-2183-9
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date07/11/2024
Pages736 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 153 mm, Height 234 mm
Minimum age18 years
Article no.50757567
Publisher's article no.72375
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.45495585
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the 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.