The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

by Sacks, Oliver
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ISBN: 9780593466674
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In his most extraordinary book, Dr. Sacks recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders.

Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: 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; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematic talents. In Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human, and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Sacks, Oliver
  • ISBN: 9780593466674
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.80
  • Number Of Pages: 320
  • Publication Year: 2021
Language: English

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