To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushe...
To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.
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...
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.
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Acknowledgments
Preface
The Case of the Colorblind Painter
The Last Hippie
A Surgeon’s Life
To See and Not See
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Acknowledgments
Preface
The Case of the Colorblind Painter
The Last Hippie
A Surgeon’s Life
To See and Not See
The Landscape of His Dreams
Prodigies
An Anthropologist on Mars
Selected Bibliography
References
Index
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there is no such entity as “memory”, but only the dynamic process of “remembering” (he is always at pains, in his great book Remembering, to avoid the noun and use the verb).
Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organized past reactions or experience, and to a little outstanding detail which commonly appears in image or in language form. It is thus hardly ever really exact, even in the most rudimentary cases of rote recapitulation, and it is not at all important that it should be so. (查看原文)
Bartlett’s conclusion now finds the strongest support in Gerald Edelman’s neuroscientific work, his view of the brain as a ubiquitously active system where a constant shifting is in process, and everything is continually updated and recorrelated. There is nothing cameralike, nothing mechanical, in Edelman’s view of the mind: every perception is a creation, every memory a recreation—all remembering is relating, generalizing, recategorizing. In such a view there cannot be any fixed memories, any “pure” view of the past uncolored by the present. For Edelman, as for Bartlett, there are always dynamic processes at work, and remembering is always reconstruction, not reproduction. (查看原文)
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奥利弗·萨克斯 作者
严杰夫
中信出版社2016版
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中信出版社2010版
2 有用 赵贾森 2017-07-12 14:51:55
人类being self的挣扎，Temple最后令人动容的说出“I'm talking about things at the very core of my existence”
0 有用 安可期 2022-04-26 23:29:38
火星上的人类学家
0 有用 Echo 2021-01-18 19:42:13
很多病例个人生活的介绍，非常具有人文关怀。在通勤时间audible听的，所以有的时候会大段溜号，不算很完整的读了这本。只是不符合我的期待，我以为会偏科普向，实际有点y太煽情了。
0 有用 mendel 2018-04-26 01:46:53
The stories of their lives…所有的故事，都有一种柔化了挣扎，面对悲剧的淡然感。同书名的那个讲患自闭症的科学家的故事大概令人感触最深，而从神经科学角度个人感觉最有趣的或许该是“To see and not see”
1 有用 D Geek挑战奇迹 2018-12-31 20:39:29
这本书里的每一个短故事和seeing voice一样打动人心。疾病究竟让人得到还是失去？也许认知系统一直都在激流般的世界中寻求一个稳定的平衡点，每一的cognitive pattern都有它的存在意义，所以不存在得到和失去——它的存在本身就证明了它的完整性。也正因为这样，带着人类学家的视角去研究cognitive anomaly是必须的。
0 有用 是哦哦啊 2022-06-04 15:05:16
每一章都是一种不同的看世界的角度。Temple的squeeze machine听起来好棒！
0 有用 安可期 2022-04-26 23:29:38
火星上的人类学家
0 有用 还是小疯子 2022-04-21 02:10:25
从医生的角度聊那些脑子与常人不同的“患者”的世界。究竟什么才是正常？什么才是疾病呢？健康就一定是最优的吗？可能“脑子有问题”反而可以让一个人从一个全新的角度享受这个世界呢
0 有用 Echo 2021-01-18 19:42:13
很多病例个人生活的介绍，非常具有人文关怀。在通勤时间audible听的，所以有的时候会大段溜号，不算很完整的读了这本。只是不符合我的期待，我以为会偏科普向，实际有点y太煽情了。
0 有用 莉莉刘 2020-12-30 14:54:25
非常好看，推荐大家都来看