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Com uma perna só (Portuguese Edition) Kindle Edition

Portuguese Edition by Oliver Sacks (Author), Laura Teixeira Motta (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition

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Durante uma escalada solitária na Noruega, em 1974, o jovem neurologista Oliver Sacks depara-se com um enorme touro branco. Em pânico, dá meia volta, dispara pelo caminho inverso e um tombo faz com que sua perna esquerda fique seriamente avariada. Depois de uma cirurgia, a sensação é de que a perna se tornara "inexistente". O médico se transforma em paciente e é obrigado a aprender lições de passividade num leito de hospital. Sem poder andar, apartado da vida normal e isolado pela insensibilidade de colegas médicos, Sacks inicia um processo de autodiagnóstico. Decide então elaborar um relato provocativo sobre os padrões de atendimento do sistema de saúde, mas também um testemunho vivo e fluente sobre os mecanismos neuro-sensoriais responsáveis pela formação da "imagem corporal" - graças à qual sentimos que os membros fazem parte do corpo, formando um todo integrado. Para o leitor é a oportunidade de conviver com a intimidade de um homem de cultura, inteligência e sensibilidade únicas durante um dos momentos mais críticos - e férteis - de sua vida pessoal e profissional.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01A756LYQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Companhia das Letras; 1st edition (January 8, 2003)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 8, 2003
Language ‏ : ‎ Portuguese
File size ‏ : ‎ 1424 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 185 pages

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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.