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 fore
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Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patien
<p>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 f
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Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; from PROGRESS REPORT (1981); Annual Dinner; April; Cardiac Department; Comfort; Commuter; Crossing London to Suffolk; Desires; Dig; Dropping Out; The EmigrΓ©; Evidence; Father Christmas; February; God's Christmas Jokes; Hiatus; L