First Loves and last Tales
From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays
that showcase 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.

Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sacks’s myriad interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose.

Includes a PDF with the Bibliography, Permission & Acknowledgements,
and a Note About the Author

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Penguin Randomhouse

Alles an seinem Platz
Erste Lieben und letzte Fälle
Der Neurologe Oliver Sacks ist durch seine Fallgeschichten weltberühmt geworden.
Er hat eine neue Form des Verständnisses für seine Patienten entwickelt, indem er
deren Eigenheiten nicht als Defekte oder Behinderung abtat, sondern sie in ihrer
Besonderheit wahrnahm und beschrieb. Als Sacks 2015 starb, hinterließ er eine Fülle
von Aufzeichnungen: Sacks schreibt über Depressionen und Psychosen, über das
Tourette-Syndrom und Demenzerkrankungen, Träume und Halluzinationen.
Und er gibt Einblicke in seine persönliche Welt, indem er sein Faible für Farngewächse
und Gingkobäume beschreibt und von seinem meistgeliebten Sport erzählt:
dem ausgiebigen Schwimmen in Seen und Flüssen. Das höchst lesenswerte Vermächtnis
eines Autors von Weltrang.

Leseprobe [141 KB]

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Dr. Oliver Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books
about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,
Musicophilia, and Hallucinations. The New York Times referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine,”
and over the years he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation,
the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,
and the Royal College of Physicians. His memoir On the Move was published shortly before his death in August 2015.