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病気について語ること、それは人間について語ることだ―。妻の頭を帽子とまちがえてかぶろうとする男。日々青春のただなかに生きる90歳のおばあさん。記憶が25年まえにぴたりと止まった船乗り。頭がオルゴールになった女性…。脳神経に障害をもち、不思議な症状があらわれる患者たち。正常な機能をこわされても、かれらは人間としてのアイデンティティをとりもどそうと生きている。心の質は少しも損なわれることがない。24人の患者たち一人一人の豊かな世界に深くふみこみ、世界の読書界に大きな衝撃をあたえた優れたメディカル・エッセイ。
From Publishers Weekly
A neurologist who claims to be equally interested in disease and people, Sacks (Awakenings, etc.) explores neurological disorders with a novelist's skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings. These cases, some of which have appeared in literary or medical publications, illustrate the tragedy of losing neurological facultiesmemory, powers of visualization, word-recognitionor the also-devastating fate of those suffering an excess of neurological functions causing such hyper states as chorea, tics, Tourette's syndrome and Parkinsonism. Still other patients experience organically based hallucinations, transports, visions, etc., usually deemed to be psychic in nature. The science of neurology, Sacks charges, stresses the abstract and computerized at the expense of judgment and emotional depthsin his view, the most important human qualities. Therapy for brain-damaged patients (by medication, accommodation, music or art) should, he asserts, be designed to help restore the essentially personal quality of the individual. First serial to New York Review of Books, The Sciences and Science; Reader's Subscription alternate. January
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