The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
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Manufacturer: Touchstone
Written By: Oliver Sacks
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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: 1998-04-02
Publisher: Touchstone
Studio: Touchstone
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Editorial Reviews for The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
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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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Summary: Wonderful
Comment: This is an amazing book. It completely changes a reader's perspective on the study and practice of Neurology. While not every observation may yet be backed by research, the way that Dr Sacks approaches a problem is unique and inspiring. Read it before you start your Neurology term to arouse curiosity in even the most mundane of clinic patients!
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Summary: Wonderful book!
Comment: I bought this book years ago and I still think it's one of the best I ever read. It's a permanent part of my library.
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While reading "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," I had the feeling I was reading a book written by a serious doctor who has the giddy sense of also being a writer. Sacks has a good hand at writing, more or less, until he steers into the circular quagmire of medical and philosophical notation. The case studies are fascinating, often eerie, tales of bodies and mental wiring gone mad. Less cheers for the medical explanations that dips too far into scientific minutiae.
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