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PublisherTouchstone

ISBN-100684853949

ISBN-139780684853949

eBay Product ID (ePID)25845

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Book TitleMan Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat : and Other Clinical Tales

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

TopicNeurology, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Psychopathology / General, Neuropsychology

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, Psychology, Medical

AuthorOliver Sachs

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.4 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-004723

ReviewsClarence E. OlsenSt. Louis Post-DispatchA 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., 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 MagazineDr. 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., Clarence E. Olsen St. Louis Post-Dispatch A provocative introduction to the marvels of the human mind..., Noel PerrinChicago Sun-TimesDr. 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.

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal616.8

Table Of ContentPreface PART ONE: LOSSES Introduction 1 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat 2 The Lost Mariner 3 The Disembodied Lady 4 The Man Who Fell out of Bed 5 Hands 6 Phantoms 7 On the Level 8 Eyes Right! 9 The President's Speech PART TWO: EXCESSES Introduction 10 Witty Ticcy Ray 11 Cupid's Disease 12 A Matter of Identity 13 Yes, Father-Sister 14 The Possessed page PART THREE: TRANSPORTS Introduction 15 Reminiscence 16 Incontinent Nostalgia 17 A Passage to India 18 The Dog Beneath the Skin 19 Murder 20 The Visions of Hildegard PART FOUR: THE WORLD OF THE SIMPLE Introduction 21 Rebecca 22 A Walking Grove 23 The Twins 24 The Autist Artist Bibliography

SynopsisIn 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'sThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hattells 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.", In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth 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."

LC Classification NumberRC351.S195