Oliver Sacks Quotes
This Sense Of The Brain's Remarkable Plasticity, Its Capacity For The Most Striking Adaptations, Not Least In The Special (and Often Desperate) Circumstances Of Neural Or Sensory Mishap, Has Come To Dominate My Own Perception Of My Patients And Their Lives. So Much So, Indeed, That I Am Sometimes Moved To Wonder Whether It May Not Be Necessary To Redefine The Very Concepts Of "health" And "disease," To See These In Terms Of The Ability Of The Organism To Create A New Organization And Order, One That Fits Its Special, Altered Disposition And Needs, Rather Than In The Terms Of A Rigidly Defined "norm.
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