Everything In Its Place

Description

From the bestselling author of On Gratitude and On the Move. 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. 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 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. 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. Everything in Its Place gives us an

intimate portrait of a master writer and thinker at work.