This is the first work of his that I've read, although I may have skimmed "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" years ago. Sacks is a neurologist who also happens to write well and with great humanity and insight about his observations of wellness and illness. This book focuses on issues of the brain and music; the innate human instinct for music, disorders having to do with sound perception, as well as cases in which music has a healing or enabling property.
Amazing, amazing stuff. Always interesting to read about how the brain functions or fails to function, and the story of the man with constant, debilitating amnesia who nevertheless is able to remember and perform music is astounding.
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