Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings.
Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.
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Este libro relata la extraordinaria historia de un grupo de pacientes ingresados en el Hospital Monte Carmelo de Nueva York, supervivientes de la epidemia de encefalitis letárgica que alcanzó dimensiones planetarias en los años veinte del siglo pasado, y del asombroso «despertar» que experimentaron cuarenta años más tarde gracias al doctor Oliver Sacks, que les administró L-dopa, un medicamento de reciente aparición por aquel entonces en el mercado. Las anécdotas que cuenta de esa serie de pacientes son siempre conmovedoras, dan testimonio del valor con el que se enfrentaron a la enfermedad y a veces tienen connotaciones trágicas.
Título : Despertares
EAN : 9788433939326
Editorial : Editorial Anagrama
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