A Leg to Stand On

✍ Scribed by Oliver Sacks

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this, the most personal of all his books, neurologist Oliver Sacks tells the story of an injury he sustained while climbing a mountain in Norway and the terrifying, bizarre aftermath when he realised with horror that his leg felt alienated. It did not feel like it was part of his body, but a foreign object somehow attached to him. This sort of disembodiment, with alterations in the mind-body image that affected Sacks deeply, was as confusing as it was frightening. When he finally recovered, he experienced unbounded joy and a new wonder for being properly "oriented" to his body. With insight, learning, and an unusually unbuttoned metaphysical self-revelation in which he discusses his religious background and doubts, Sacks shows how the soul is stirred by the changes in the body.

✦ Table of Contents

Oliver Sacks, M.D.......Page Back.djvu
A Leg to Stand On......Page 00003.djvu
ISBN 0060925442......Page 00004.djvu
dedication......Page 00005.djvu
Contents......Page 00007.djvu
Preface......Page 00009.djvu
acknowledgements......Page 00013.djvu
Epigraph......Page 00015.djvu
1 The Mountain......Page 1.djvu
2 Becoming a Patient......Page 21.djvu
3 Limbo......Page 84.djvu
4 Quickening......Page 91.djvu
5 Solvitur ambulando......Page 110.djvu
6 Convalescence......Page 123.djvu
7 Understanding......Page 166.djvu
Afterword (1993)......Page 183.djvu
Annotated Bibliography......Page 205.djvu