Sacks's book confirms the richness and promise of an approach that would be simplistic to just put under the umbrella of clinical narrative. The success and style of Oliver Sacks would not be entirely understandable if it failed to consider the increasing interest in the "narrative of the disease", especially in Anglo-dominated anthropology or anthropological and medical literature of the last outright twenty years (we spoke about it to turn and literary fascination of the narrative). His detailed accounts yet of human syndromes and diseases, the analysis of their practical effects on people, are built through careful listening, recording interstices even to the most contradictory to the daily lives of his patients (which is put to the fore the illness, in other words, rather than the disease). This unique way of approaching the experience of suffering allows him to bring to light what otherwise would remain unexpressed, or, as often happens, the edge simply because they are considered "unnecessary" according to the hegemonic model of medical rationality. Young looked at these words, the power of contemporary biomedicine: that is, its ability to silence other names or delete other knowledge.
This perspective, moreover, the author can not be traced in full. Sacks is that is, a doctor, a neurologist highly educated and competent diagnosis, care, experience failures, tears and hopes and that records of his patients on pages where they run intermingled with the first words of that research and clinical practice that are not listed how can the foundations discussion (except to emphasize the schematic Cartesian or mistrust assumptions and approaches, such as those for the same Sacks, who ricalchino the course of "normal science"). In describing this, the "voice" to the contradictory feelings of a painter who loses his color vision after an accident, a patient with autism who tries to invent the machinery to embrace "a surgeon suffering from tics and other symptoms of Tourette's syndrome (on which Nathan has attracted attention in recent years), Sacks actively transforms the story of its customers 'unique' (and this is a problem that transcends the tradition of " clinical cases ", it has become the center of the debate over authorship and textuality). For him there are diseases, the same in every place and time, that only with time will be recognized as such by a proper science.
His eyes and his plays are so often caught in a bright phenomenology of the report, most adventurous, that squeeze those protagonists who are lonely doctor and patient, while are not captured as much attention to the institutional environment, the balance of power between different actors, the difficult access to health care for minorities and the poor in the United States, and so in general most would agree not forget when you explore the rugged territory health and disease. If this is a limitation in his work, remains the undisputed quality of writing that seems to have made a sort of wonder where it shows how the narrative approach to the disease represents a crucial resource in constructing a biography with meaning, but another miracle a compromise between different voices and languages \u200b\u200bis realized, with the naturalness of which the Anglo-Saxon writers always give lecture at another level: the mind-body problem, the dilemma between voluntary and involuntary activities, and other matters properly "epistemological" (in the sense that this term in American culture), peeking between discrete diagnostic questions and experiences of the disease. Within these seven stories, "paradoxical" but only if you are reading from the place of medical reason and his rhetorical device (where "health" and "disease" can be conceived only as a separate opposites), detach and dense metaphors irreducible, with a strange power, that patients have spent there when they speak of their experiences. In them, the author seems to say, hide the traces of follow in order to understand, perhaps better than through any other theory or diagnostic test, the other's demand and the complex situation of those who experience the break quell'involucro invisible is the health and normality. Is the use of these same metaphors that sometimes allows us to support the patient even if the only possible solution (which the medical science for the first finds it hard to admit) is to learn to live with the disease raises the limits, taking all As he unfolds and lives in spite of the disease.
A very interesting discussion on Charles Bonnet syndrome and the strange phenomenon of visual hallucinations
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