EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE

In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life both as a doctor engaged with the central questio ns of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Why do humans need gardens? How, and when, does a physician tell his patient she has Alzheimer's? What is social media doing to our brains?In several of the compassionate case histories colle cted here, Sacks considers for the first time the enigmas of depression, psychosis, and schizophrenia, and in others he returns to c onditions...[Read more]