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Books : The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8
EAN: 9780684853949
ISBN: 0684853949
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: April 02, 1998
Publisher: Touchstone
Studio: Touchstone
Sales Rank: 1392
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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."
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This book is written in an unusual prose; one that is off-putting in the very beginning, but as the author establishes his pace, the writing improves drastically; as does the story line.
Actually, the author is a medical doctor, but he spends microseconds of time defining what he does. The reader is flung into stories of patients and at times, the good doctor uses such demeaning terminology to describe the developmentally disabled. It is cruel, and I mean to tell you that Dr. Sacks should never ... Read More
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Dr. Sacks is an adept reporter, a consummate observer and sensitive
human being; in addition to being a good physician. The book describes
many interesting syndromes, neurological, that tax ones credulity
except for the fact that humans are "suffering" these illnesses. It is
through expositions such as these documented by Dr. Saxks that one can
become appreciative and understanding of the suffering and plight of
individuals ... Read More
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I read this book quite awhile ago, so I can't be too detailed right now. I'll add to and edit this review later, but for now, I just remember it spent about six months on my nightstand. That's impressive. - Jane
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This is a great read. A few portions got a bit dense, but the book really changed the way I think about those who have the neurological abnormalities described by Sacks. The best part is the length of each story; even if you have a limited amount of time you can read an entire case study.
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As a graduate student in the field of biology and psychology, I found this to be the perfect blend of both. Although a collection of different case studies in the field of neuropsychology, anyone with even a slight interest in the understanding of the human brain will enjoy this book. Despite a large amount of clinical and science jargon, the book is easy to comprehend. This is a simple book with a straightforward approach of showing normal people what it could be like if they ever had a brain ... Read More
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