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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Oliver Sacks é um grande comunicador e introduz-nos a uma temática fascinante, a perda de propriopercepção de alguma parte do corpo , sem que haja uma perda física dessa parte. A confusão ilusão do nosso cérebro mercê de uma privação temporária do uso de alguma parte do nosso corpo.
Oliver Sacks is a neurologist of wide lay reading, a man of humane eloquence, a genuine communicator aware of the damnable rift that subsists between doctor and patient. He deals with what can only be termed the metaphysical implications of a somatic crisis in his own life and he points the way towards a more holistic approach to what, to the orthopaedist, is a matter of crass carpentry... He had to learn to walk again, and he didn't want know how to do it. 'It wasn't "my" leg I was walking with, but a huge, clumsy prosthesis ... a leg-shaped cylinder of chalk.' Then there was a miracle. Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto came into his head, it seemed to stimulate an inner 'motor' music, a 'kinetic melody', and the leg suddenly felt alive again, it became his.
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's ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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