With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. Among them: a surgeon who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes obsessed with Chopin; people with ‘amusia’, to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of poets and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds – for everything but music. Dr Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson’s disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm an Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks od authora Oliver Sacks a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Oliver Sacks |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
428 |
Rok vydání |
2018 |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
Picador |