On the Move

基本信息

Format Paperback | 416 pages

Dimensions 130 x 197 x 27mm | 305g

Publication date 25 Feb 2016

Publisher Pan MacMillan

Imprint PICADOR

Language English

ISBN10 1447264061

ISBN13 9781447264064

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

■《紐約時報》年度最值得注目的一百本書

■已譯成二十種語文版本的全球暢銷書

■ 獲選 亞馬遜網絡書店當月*書選

最誠懇的自傳，最瀟灑的人生

他寫過十二本醫學人文暢銷書，獨樹一幟

他的成名作《睡人》搬上大銀幕，名噪一時

他在紐約成為流浪醫師，巡迴關懷弱勢精神病人

他曾以身試「藥」，親自體驗各種感官的幻覺

他不是「看病」而已，而是看病人、醫病人的病

他年輕時酷愛騎摩托車長途漂泊，經常一日雙城

他能蹲舉二百七十二公斤，一舉創下加州新紀錄

他熱愛游泳、爬山、思考、寫作、關懷病人

他與睿智機敏的羅賓．威廉斯成為好友……

他一生多采多姿、喜歡冒險、勇往直前

他是j無僅有的，奧利弗?薩克斯醫生

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . .

From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, as well as with a group of patients who would define his life, it becomes clear that Sacks's earnest desire for engagement has occasioned unexpected encounters and travels – sending him throu*h bars and alleys, over oceans, and across continents.

With unbridled honesty and humour, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions –bodybuilding, weightlifting, and swimming – also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual, his guilt over leaving his family to come to America, his bond with his schizophrenic brother, and the writers and scientists – Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick – who influenced him.

On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer – and of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.

作者簡介

奧利弗·薩克斯Oliver Sacks（1933-2015）

傑出的神經病學專家、聞名全球的暢銷書作家，在醫學和文學領域均享有盛譽。畢業於牛津大學皇后學院，哥倫比亞大學臨牀神經科教授。

他是美國藝術和文學學會的會員、紐約科學研究院研究員，是英國牛津大學、加拿大女王大學、美國喬治敦大學等多所名校的榮譽博士，也是古根漢學術獎獲得者，還被英國女王授予大英帝國勛章。他常年為《紐約客》、《紐約時報·書評週刊》的專欄供稿，是《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜上的常勝作家。因其在文學和科學研究上的傑出貢獻，薩克斯榮膺霍桑登獎、喬治·波克獎，以及專門授予科學作家的劉易斯·托馬斯獎。其膾炙人口的作品有《幻覺》《腦袋裏裝2000出歌劇的人》《火星上的人類學家》《鎢舅舅》《錯把妻子當帽子》和《甦醒》（最後這一部被改編成電影《無語問蒼天》，並獲得1991年奧斯卡獎提名）

Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at 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.