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The New Yorker veteran and author of Mr. Wilsons Cabinet of Wonder draws on decades of friendship to trace the lesser-known early story of the brilliant neurologist and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Illustrations. Index.

 

 

"Lawrence Weschler sets Oliver Sacks's brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks's capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that wouldform The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed to address his greatestconcern: the spontaneous specificity of the individual human soul. And all the while he is pouring out a stream of glorious, ribald, hilarious, and often profound conversation that establishes him as one of the great talkers of the age. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist, a self-described "clinical ontologist" whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? Which is to say, How do you be? A question which Weschler, with this book, turns back on the good doctor himself"--

 

Table of Contents

Prologue 3 (16)

Part I Getting to Know Him

1 Going for a Row

19 (8)

2 Early Childhood, a Harrowing Exile, Cruel Judaism, Homosexuality, and a Mother's Curse

27 (8)

3 Conversations with Bob Rodman and Thorn Gunn in California

35 (14)

4 A Visit to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and Lunch at a Japanese Restaurant

49 (11)

5 Oliver's Cousins Abba Eban and Carmel Ross

60 (5)

6 From California to New York (1962-1967)

65 (8)

7 The Migraine Clinic (1966-1968)

73 (6)

8 The Awakenings Drama (1968-1975)

79 (28)

9 On Rounds with Oliver at Beth Abraham

107 (6)

10 Auden and Luria

113 (15)

11 A Visit with Oliver to London, including Conversations with Eric Korn, Jonathan Miller, and Colin Haycraft

128 (56)

12 On Rounds with Oliver at the Little Sisters and Bronx State

184 (12)

13 Ward 23

196 (6)

14 John the Touretter

202 (19)

Part II How He Was (the Passing Months)

15 The Blockage Begins to Break (1982-1983)

221 (31)

16 The Leg Book Shambles Toward Publication as Oliver Hazards a Neurology of the Soul (the First Half of 1984)

252 (30)

17 The Publication, at Long Last, of the Leg Book; Its Reception; Sancho Launches into His Profile and Is Stopped (the Second Half of 1984)

282 (23)

Part III Afterwards

18 Dear Friends (1985-2005)

305 (31)

19 A Digression on the Question of Reliability and the Nature of Romantic Science

336 (11)

20 His Own Life (2005-2015)

347 (18)

Postscript 365 (4)

Acknowledgments 369 (2)

Index