Hallucinations (Thorndike Nonfiction) - Tapa blanda

Praise for Oliver Sacks and "Hallucinations"
"Oliver Sacks is our greatest chronicler of people with unusual neurological and sensory disabilities and experiences."
--"The Globe and Mail
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"With his trademark mix of evocative description, probing curiosity, and warm empathy, Sacks once again draws back the curtain on the mind's improbable workings."
"--Publishers Weekly "(starred review)

"Oliver Sacks...gets trippy."
"--Quill & Quire"

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An Amazon.com Best Book [2012]

"Absorbing.... His compassion for his patients and his own philosophical outlook turn what might have been clinical case studies into humanely written short stories, animated as much by an intuitive appreciation of the human condition as by scientific understanding."
--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times Book Review"

"[I]t is impossible not to get sucked in by the sheer enthusiasm with which he tackles his subject, the breadth of knowledge and research he brings to it, and the quirky charm he unleashes on nearly every page."
--"Toronto Star"

"Sacks triumphs. Not just in the clarity with which he teaches us about the obscure phenomenology of the human brain, but in the light his writing casts on even our most ordinary experiences."
--"The Telegraph" (4/5 stars)

"[Sacks is a] master at bridging the arts and the sciences.... Fascinating book.... Written with both grace and erudition, "Hallucinations" taps into the mysteries of the human brain in a way calculated to appeal to both the scientist and general reader with a questing mind."
--"The Gazette"

"Oliver Sacks is our greatest chronicler of people with unusual neurological and sensory disabilities and experiences."
--"The Globe and Mail
"
"With his trademark mix of evocative description, probing curiosity, and warm empathy, Sacks once again draws back the curtain on the mind's improbable workings."
"--Publishers Weekly "(starred review)

"Oliver Sacks...gets trippy."
"--Quill & Quire"

A provocative investigation into the types, physiological sources and cultural resonances of hallucinations traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness, drawing on a wealth of clinical examples to explore hallucination categories and how they reflect folklore and brain structure. (medical).