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Chargement... A Leg to Stand On (original 1984; édition 1987)par Oliver W. Sacks
Information sur l'oeuvreA Leg to Stand On par Oliver Sacks (1984)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Oliver Sacks's memoir of how he broke his leg in the Norwegian mountains and his recovery and convalescence. Because of neurological damage he couldn't recognise the leg as part of his own body and had to re-integrate it into his mental body image. He was able to use that experience to help him in his treatment of patients with neuropsychological problems by emphasising the need to listen to patients' accounts of their experiences rather than simply fixing the physical problem. The first edition used Kantian metaphysics as an explanatory tool (and I admit I struggled to understand this section) but he backtracked on this rather in later editions as scientific knowledge has progressed thanks to the availability of more modern equipment. ( ) Oliver Sacks tells the story of breaking his leg during a solo climbing expedition and his recovery, from the perspective of a neurologist. You’d think this would be dry and boring. He makes it spiritual and poetic, a primer that could applicable to any illness. After the accident and post-surgery to repair his leg, he noticed that he felt like his leg wasn’t part of him anymore. It had become invisible and he couldn’t feel it. After watching the PBS documentary, I promised myself I would read this book and was well rewarded. Perdere l'uso di una gamba (a seguito di un grave incidente in montagna) permette a Sacks di vivere una straordinaria esperienza di dispercezione corporea (per molti giorni la sua gamba non c'è più, non esiste, è uno spazio vuoto), esperienza terrorizzante da cui inizia un percorso di riappropriazione percettiva che gli permette di entrare in uno stato di "Grazia" e gli fa cogliere il senso profondo di un "Io" che è tutt'altra cosa dell'"Io "spettrale, cogitante, solipsistico di Descartes".
Oliver Sacks is a neurologist of wide lay reading, a man of humane eloquence, a genuine communicator aware of the damnable rift that subsists between doctor and patient. He deals with what can only be termed the metaphysical implications of a somatic crisis in his own life and he points the way towards a more holistic approach to what, to the orthopaedist, is a matter of crass carpentry... He had to learn to walk again, and he didn't want know how to do it. 'It wasn't "my" leg I was walking with, but a huge, clumsy prosthesis ... a leg-shaped cylinder of chalk.' Then there was a miracle. Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto came into his head, it seemed to stimulate an inner 'motor' music, a 'kinetic melody', and the leg suddenly felt alive again, it became his.
When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position - that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but straightforward to fix; the psychological effects, however, were far less easy to predict, explain, or resolve: Sacks experienced paralysis and an inability to perceive his leg as his own, instead seeing it as some kind of alien and inanimate object, over which he had no control.A Leg to Stand On is both an account of Sacks's ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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