Everything in Its Place gives us an intimate portrait of a master writer and thinker at work. In counterpoint to these elegant investigations of what makes us human, this volume also includes pieces that celebrate Sacks's love of the natural world – and his last meditations on life in the twenty-first century. In several of the compassionate case histories collected here, Sacks considers for the first time the enigmas of depression, psychosis, and schizophrenia, and in others he returns to conditions that have long fascinated him: Tourette's syndrome, ageing, dementia, and hallucinations. 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? Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks 2,223 ratings, 4. In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life – both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE 9781509821822 From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sackss broad. From the bestselling author of On Gratitude and On the Move.
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