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Publisher Comments:
Sequel to >The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat<, containing another seven case studies from the files of the gentle and bearded neurologist and the first mainstream book from the author for ten years. A bestseller in hardback, >The Man Who Mistook His Wife..< sold over 250,000 in Picador. First paperback edition, with integrated colour illustrations.
Synopsis:
This collection of essays are mainly casebook studies. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. This book offers portraits of seven such travellers, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating.
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Jeane, March 7, 2008 (view all comments by Jeane)
Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author, takes us inside the experiences of his patients in An Anthropologist on Mars. Here are the lives of a painter who went color blind after an accident, a man with a brain tumor that eclipsed all his memories except for those prior to 1970, a surgeon with Tourrette's syndrom whose symptoms disappeared while he performed surgery, a man who after forty-five years of blindness had cataracts removed and could make no sense of the visual world, an artist whose photographic memories of a certain place overwhelmed his life, and two autistic individuals- one severely disabled yet an extraordinary artist and the other a professor who understood animals' interactions better than people's- using that to build herself a successful career.
Written not as an examination of illness, but an exploration of the world of the mind, these studies demonstrate how the perception of the brain creates the reality we live in. It's a very fascinating book, one I highly recommend.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780330343473
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Libri
- Location:
- N
- Copyright:
- 1996
- Edition Description:
- NEW ED
- Publication Date:
- 19960112
- Binding:
- TRADE PAPER
- Pages:
- 329
- Dimensions:
- 197 x 130 in.
