A Leg to Stand On
- Author Oliver Sacks
- Narrator Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 7 hours and 6 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Disability: social aspects, Literary essays, Memoirs, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Neurosciences, Popular psychology.
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What to expect
‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ - Observer
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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