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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 233 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0684853949
Release Date: Jan 6, 1997
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
The author has "collected a variety of case histories and clinical vignettes. . . . [Sacks offers orienting] essays before taking us through four domains: Losses, Excesses, Transports and The World of the Simple. Within each domain, men and women struggle individually with a common problem: how to reconcile being both a faulty mechanism and a thematic, complex and enduring self. -- Nation
| | | | From The Publisher
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" [The New York Times] recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks' splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
Fascinating case studies presented w/ humanity
-- j. hardy iv, November 24, 1999
Fascinating case studies presented w/ humanity
-- j. hardy iv, November 24, 1999
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
"Dr. Sacks' most absorbing book...His tales are so compelling that many of them serve as eerie metaphors not only for the condition of modern medicine but of modern man"--New York
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| | | | | | Keywords
Anecdotes, Neurology, Neurology, Anecdotes, Nervous system, Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Neurology - General, Anecdotes, Neurology
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