Table of Contents

Ian the Third; gastric flu; the physiological loss; down; outward bound; sent to Coventry; skinning a cat; coming alive again; in the bleak midwinter; life's work; the physiology of cheating; senses and sensibilities; the 29th of February; the daily marathon.

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A story at once terrifying and inspiring...It is a remarkable human document, a neurological epic. A case-history, a physiological investigation, a detective story and a romance. -- Oliver Sacks

About the Author

Jonathan Cole, D.M., F.R.C.P., is Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology, Poole Hospital, and at Salisbury Hospital (with its Spinal Centre), a Professor at Bournemouth University and a visiting Senior Lecturer, Southampton University. The late Oliver Sacks was a neurologist and the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, Musicophilia, and other books.

Reviews

"A story at once terrifying and inspiring... It is a remarkable human document, a neurological epic. A case-history, a physiological investigation, a detective story and a romance." Oliver Sacks