In move. Life story. Sax O.

Oliver Sax - a well -known British neurologist, the author of a number of popular books translated into twenty languages, two of which - “The man who took his wife for a hat” and “Anthropologist on Mars” - became international bestsellers.

Oliver Sax told readers many amazing stories of his patients, and at the end of his life he decided to tell the story of his own life, which amazes the imagination no less than the story of a person who took his wife for a hat. This is the story of a difficult growing up an extraordinary boy in a suffocating provincial British atmosphere of the middle of the last century.

The story of a young neurologist who did not make the difference between the concepts of “life” and “science”.

the story of a person who is He boldly went to confrontation with the scientific community, put forward bold theories and put on himself risky, if not eccentric, experiments.

the story of one of the most famous neurologists and neuropsychologists of our time - an fearless ascetic of science, an outstanding person and convinced humanist.