After a bull encounter on a Norwegian mountain leaves him badly injured, neurologist Oliver Sacks becomes the patient and explores identity and recovery.
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After a bull encounter on a Norwegian mountain leaves him badly injured, neurologist Oliver Sacks becomes the patient and explores identity and recovery.
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Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders.
In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medica...
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Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content present
Violence & gore
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Severe leg injury after bull encounter; surgery; limb feels alien
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Brief philosophical references to soul and selfhood
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Reflections on institutional medicine and doctor-patient dynamics
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Physical ordeal of injury, surgery, and difficult recovery
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