November 2, 2007
The Uncanny Symphony of Oliver Sacks
Years ago, in the preface to his first book, the neurologist Oliver Sacks announced his interest in founding a "romantic medicine." He's been refining the art and the science together ever since. After recent pauses for a memoir and a book about a trip to observe exotic ferns, Sacks returns in the just-published Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007) to the "clinical tales" that made him famous: weird case studies that locate the uncanny in everyday life. The goal
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