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MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT, THE and Other Clinical Tales

Sacks, Oliver
Simon & Schuster
1998
ISBN: 9780684853949
Pages: pp.243
Format: Softcover
Quantity in stock: 1

Condition: New

Price: $14.00 (inc GST)


"One of the great clinical writers of the 20th C "(The New York Times) recounts case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorder.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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