Dimensions
130 x 197 x 12mm
Losing a limb is a castastrophe, and it needed a thoughtful essay written about it. This is it. Oliver Sacks is a neurologist of wide lay reading, a man of human eloquence, a genuine communicator aware of the damnable rift that subsists between doctor and patient. Its value lies in its willingness to combine the technical and the demotic, to admit poetry and philosophy and the religious impulse. It is also intensely personal, but it affirms the community of human experience.
