OntheMove

At the age of twelve, a perceptive schoolmaster predicted that Oliver Sacks would go far, “if he does not go too far.” It is clear that Sacks has never stopped pushing the boundaries. On the Move, from its opening pages recounting his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, is infused with his restless energy. As a young neurologist in the 1960s, he struggled with drug addiction in California before discovering a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital in New York - a defining moment in his engagement with patients.

With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions - weightlifting and swimming - also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual, as well as his guilt over leaving his family to come to America. He shares his bond with his schizophrenic brother, and reflects on the writers and scientists - Thom Gunn, A.R. Luria, W.H. Auden, Francis Crick - who influenced him.

On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer, a man who illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.

作者简介

OliverSacks,M.D.isaphysician,abest-sellingauthor,andaprofessorofneurologyattheNYUSchoolofMedicine.TheNewYorkTimeshasreferredtohimas“thepoetlaureateofmedicine.”Heisbestknownforhiscollectionsofneurologicalcasehistories,includingTheManwhoMistookhisWifeforaHat,Musicophilia:TalesofMusicandtheBrainandAnAnthropologiston...