From musical hauntings to music therapy, Musicophilia passionately explores the mysterious power of music through stories of patients with neurological disorders or recent brain trauma, musicians and everyday people.
Appeals: Sacks writes about science that in a way that is both accessible and not dumbed-down; compelling characters; good footnotes and references that will guide an interested reader to many other great books and movies.
If you enjoy science writing, you might also enjoy I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould or Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.
Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. 2007. 381 pages.
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