Everything in Its Place：First Loves and Last Tales

《Everything in Its Place》是神經科醫師奧利佛．薩克斯晚年的思想結晶。他透過醫療現場的故事，探討人類大腦與心靈的奧祕，從妥瑞氏症、失智到幻覺，也誠實面對憂鬱與精神疾病。此外，書中也流露他對自然、園藝與當代生活的關懷，展現出一位醫者的多面人生。

From the bestselling author of On Gratitude, On the Move and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

In this spirited volume, neurologist Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life – both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Why do humans need gardens? How, and when, does a physician tell his patient she has Alzheimer’s? What is social media doing to our brains?

In several of the compassionate case histories collected here, Sacks considers for the first time the enigmas of depression, psychosis and schizophrenia, and in others he returns to conditions that have long fascinated him: Tourette’s syndrome, ageing, dementia and hallucinations. In counterpoint to these elegant investigations of what makes us human, this volume also includes pieces that celebrate Sacks’s love of the natural world – and his last meditations on life in the twenty-first century. Everything in Its Place gives us an intimate portrait of a master writer and thinker at work.

‘Life bursts through all of Oliver Sacks’s writing. He was and will remain a brilliant singularity’ The New York Times Book Review

Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.