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Binding: PaperbackDewey 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 Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product 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." Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Extremely HelpfulThis book has helped me in so many ways to understand the human mind. I can't say enough about this book, except to tell people to buy it. Rating:  - Be thankful after reading this bookBe thankful after reading this book, Be thankful you do not have one of these very interesting yet severe neuropsychological illnesses. a great book, very interesting, it teaches you a lot about the human body and mind, and as someone famous once said, it shows you how "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong". I would not miss it! Rating: - A must read!This book was assigned text for a neuropsych. class I had during my undergraduate degree. It was by far the best text I've had assigned in any class. This book, along with Ramachandran's, Phantom's in the Brain, was the first time I even considered the Nature side of the Nature/Nurture debate. I will never forget the stories. Learning about these cases with brain disorders left me with such a sense of awe for what the brain can do. Sacks has a wonderful writing style that turns philosophical at the ... Read More Rating: - Interesting and intelligentThis book is full of tales of interesting anomalies in the brain. Oliver Sacks tells each story in a way that conveys his passion for the topic. Very enjoyable reading for those interested in the mysteries of the human mind. Rating: - CuteThis book was required for a cluster class I took. I am keeping the book even though I dropped the class because it has wonderful and interesting viewpoints of others who have to cope with life different than most of us. I would recommend this to a friend. 
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