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Five Senses
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F. Gonzalez-Crussi is an essayist who also happens to be a medical doctor. His books use medical knowledge as jumping off points for flights of philosophical discourse intermingled with some of his own memoirs of growing up in Mexico. The Five Senses is not a cohesive book, as there is no attempt to examine each of the five senses equally, but the writing is superb. The edition I had included a cover endorsement by Oliver Sacks, another MD-author, but I prefer the writing of Gonzalez-Crussi. The chapter on sight had wonderful anecdotes of two blind persons the author was acquainted with while working in a drug store in Mexico as a youth. Humor, insight, scholarship and beautiful writing make me a fan of this author, and his The Five Senses.
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ISBN:
9780679727170
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Publication date:
04/01/1991
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PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
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162 p.
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no. 2
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Fra Gonzalez Crussi
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Senses and sensation
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