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Migraine
- Author
- Oliver Sacks
- Narrator
- Jonathan Davis
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 10 January 2019
- Run Time
- 12 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement' - Sunday Telegraph.
Migraine is an age-old – the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years – and often debilitating condition, affecting a 'substantial minority' of the population across the globe. In Migraine, Oliver Sacks offers at once a medical account of its occurrence and management; an exploration of its physical, physiological, and psychological underpinnings and consequences; and a meditation on the nature and experience of health and illness.
Critics Review
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It delves into the workings of the brain with brilliant complexity, and should be required reading for migraine sufferers or those with an intellectual bent.
Cosmopolitan
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Migraine is full of those wondrous insights that have made Oliver Sacks the most accessible and at the same time the most magisterial of doctors.
Spectator
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Written with Sacks's customary insight and grace, no book has helped me understand more about the mind-body connection.
Mail on Sunday
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Details
- Author
- Oliver Sacks
- Narrator
- Jonathan Davis
- Duration
- 12 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 January 2019
- ISBN
- 9781509895755
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Essays, Popular psychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Neurosciences
Synopsis
'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement' - Sunday Telegraph. Migraine is an age-old – the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years – and often debilitating condition, affecting a 'substantial minority' of the population across the globe. In Migraine, Oliver Sacks offers at once a medical account of its occurrence and management; an exploration of its physical, physiological, and psychological underpinnings and consequences; and a meditation on the nature and experience of health and illness.
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