'Oliver Sacks is a neurologist, a man of humane eloquence, and a genuine communicator' Observer'Sacks writes in the great tradition of literary doctors. He is humane, relaxed and amused, and loved a good anecdote' Spectator'Oliver Sacks...

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly,...

In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver...

Zwischen 1916 und 1927 grassierte weltweit eine Epidemie der sogenannten Europäischen Schlafkrankheit, eine Gehirnkrankheit, die neben fast fünf Millionen Toten unzählige schwergeschädigte Menschen hinterließ. Der Neuropsychologe Oliver...

The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange visual hallucinations and...

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined his plans for the last book he would oversee, The River of Consciousness. As an eminent neurologist and highly regarded throughout his life for his far-reaching examinations of the human...

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention...

'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to...

'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is, for many people,...

'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...

Zu Beginn begegnen wir dem Autor auf einer Wanderung in den norwegischen Bergen. Das Urlaubsidyll verwandelt sich jäh in eine Katastrophe: In einer gottverlassenen Gegend verletzt sich Sacks ein Bein. Unter unsäglichen Schmerzen kriecht...

On the Move: A Life von Sacks, Oliver