Mentored by a Madman

The William Burroughs Experiment

A.J. Lees (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2016
Notting Hill Editions (Verlag)
978-1-910749-10-4 (ISBN)

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In this extraordinary memoir, neuroscientist Andrew Lees explains how William Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, played an unlikely part in his medical career.

Lees draws on Burroughs' search for an addiction cure to discover a ground-breaking treatment for shaking palsy, and learns how to use the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to diagnose patients. Lees follows Burroughs into the rainforest and under the influence of yage (ayahuasca) gains insights that encourage him to pursue new lines of pharmacological research and explore new forms of science.

Andrew Lees is a Professor of Neurology at the National Hospital, London. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the American Academy of Neurology Life Time Achievement Award, the Association of British Neurologist's Medal, the Dingebauer Prize for outstanding research and the Gowers Medal. He is one of the three most highly cited Parkinson's disease researchers in the world. He is the author of several books, including Ray of Hope, runner-up in the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and The Silent Plague.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Vorwort	James Grauerholz
Zusatzinfo	Colour and b/w illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	120 x 190 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-910749-10-9 / 1910749109
ISBN-13	978-1-910749-10-4 / 9781910749104
Zustand	Neuware