📗 Libro en inglés MUSICOPHILIA: TALES OF MUSIC AND THE BRAIN
TAYLOR & FRANCIS- 9781035068371
Sinopsis de MUSICOPHILIA: TALES OF MUSIC AND THE BRAIN
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 pots 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 and organize people who are deeply disoriented by Alzheimer’s or schizophrenia.
Musicophilia alters our conception of who we are and how we function, and shows us an essential part of what it is to be human.
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 pots 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 and organize people who are deeply disoriented by Alzheimer’s or schizophrenia.
Musicophilia alters our conception of who we are and how we function, and shows us an essential part of what it is to be human.
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Editorial: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781035068371
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 12/12/2025
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Escrito por Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks (Londres, 1933-Nueva York, 2015) fue profesor de Neurología Clínica en el Albert Einstein College de Nueva York. En Anagrama se han publicado sus obras fundamentales: los ensayos Migraña, Despertares, Con una sola pierna, El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero, Veo una voz, Un antropólogo en Marte, La isla de los ciegos al color, El tío Tungsteno, Diario de Oaxaca, Musicofilia, Los ojos de la mente, Alucinaciones, El río de la conciencia y Todo en su sitio, y los volúmenes de memorias En movimiento y Gratitud.
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