Migraine
by:
Oliver Sacks (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307398178 (030739817X)
Publish date: November 13th 2008
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Science,
Biology,
Health,
Medical,
Psychology,
Medicine,
Neuroscience,
Brain,
Illness
Enjoyable, as Sacks always is, but more episodic than some, with modular chapters that don't really build on each other. Sacks here identifies and characterizes a variety of processes, ailments, damage, and poisons that can lead to different forms of hallucination (with a delusion or two thrown in f...
More clinical than later books, so dense, but full of wonders.
Some interesting stuff, and I loved the migraine art, but so far, not much I didn't already know.
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