The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Hardcover

Sacks, Oliver

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715620673 ISBN 13: 9780715620670

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1985

Synopsis

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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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.

Clarence E. Olsen

"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"

A provocative introduction to the marvels of the human mind...

"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.

Clarence E. Olsen"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"A provocative introduction to the marvels of the human mind...

"New York Magazine"Dr. Sacks's most absorbing book.... His tales are so compelling that many ofthem serve as eerie metaphors not only for the condition of modern medicinebut of modern man.

Noel Perrin"Chicago Sun-Times"Dr. Sacks's best book.... One sees a wise, compassionate and very literate mindat work in these 20 stories, nearly all remarkable, and many the kind that restore one's faith in humanity.

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.

Clarence E. Olsen "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" A provocative introduction to the marvels of the human mind...

"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.

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.

Book Description

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations ...

Edition details

• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715620673
• ISBN 13: 9780715620670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 234