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Product Details
Touchstone, April 1998
Trade Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0684853949
ISBN-13: 9780684853949
Description
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's 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."
Clarence E. Olsen
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A provocative introduction to the marvels of the human mind...
Noel Perrin
Chicago Sun-Times
Dr. Sacks's best book.... One sees a wise, compassionate and very literate mind
at work in these 20 stories, nearly all remarkable, and many the kind that restore one's faith in humanity.
New York Magazine
Dr. Sacks's 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.
Cleveland Live, October 14, 2011
...narration that recalls the detached, unjudgmental style of Joseph Roth or Marguerite Duras." The Mind's Eye Oliver Sacks (Vintage, 240 pp.) $15 Sacks -- "Musicophilia," "Awakenings" -- is a practicing physician and professor at Columbia ...
Isanti County News, October 5, 2011
...was exaggerating the situation. The truth was that the rest of us should get wise to it. Neurologist Oliver Sacks collected stories of his patients in his book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. He notes that for each noticeably odd, ...
Guardian.co.uk, September 28, 2011
...From Douglas Adams to Lord Scarman and Umberto Eco to Oliver Sacks, the historian chooses his pick from a turbulent decade As well as journalistic career that has included spells as chief political correspondent for the Observer and Daily ...
Guardian.co.uk, November 5, 2009
...The prize's website plays a similar game, suggesting García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Ian McEwan's Saturday as likely nominees from the past. But the possibility ...
Guardian Unlimited, October 23, 2009
...you can see how Mary-Kay has drawn a line through it and written a new headline." "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" went on to became the title piece of Oliver Sacks's bestselling book and not only showed Wilmers's editorial flair ...
HuntingtonNews.Net, August 29, 2009
...s Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions' (Basic Books, 272 pages, $26.00, with a foreward by Dr. Oliver Sacks) that one of the most humiliating experiences of her life occurred when she started third grade. 'On the first day of third ...
Harpers Magazine, July 28, 2009
...By Scott Horton Columbia University Professor Oliver Sacks is probably the country?s best known neurologist. But his greatest talent may be his ability to make the complexities of neurological disorders understandable to laymen while ...
Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2009
...Today, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks turns 76. His most recent book, 2007's "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" is, we wrote in our review, "not so much a greatest-hits collection as a ...
Daily Nexus, April 22, 2009
...Oliver Sacks - deemed the poet laureate of medicine by The New York Times - will speak at Campbell Hall tonight at 7:30. UCSBs Arts & Lectures, with support from ...
Oliver Sacks's Books
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A Leg to Stand OnDr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for...Read More
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