'Hallucinations,' by Oliver Sacks. A Book Review by Siri Hustvedt. Sunday Book Review. The New York Times. December 28, 2012.
Sacks method here is the narrative case study of a variety of hallucinations seeking always to preserves the part without losing the synthetic whole. He seeks, as much as possible, to unite the physiological and the psychological to paint a picture of complex human reality. The last sentence in the review is nice summary of the approach the reviewer sees in this book: "Learned, quietly passionate and always curious, Sacks is a physician who has long understood that medicine is an art as well as a science.
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