The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
The stories in An Anthropologist on Mars are medical case reports not unlike the classic tales of Berton Rouech© in The Medical Detectives. Sacks's stories are of "differently brained" people, and they have the intrinsic human interest that spurred his book Awakenings to be re-created as a Robin Williams movie.
The title story in Anthropologist is that of autistic Temple Grandin, whose own book Thinking in Pictures gives her version of how she feels--as unlike other humans as a cow or a Martian. The other minds Sacks describes are equally remarkable: a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome, a painter who loses color vision, a blind man given the ambiguous gift of sight, artists with memories that overwhelm "real life," the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, and a man with memory damage for whom it is always 1968.
Oliver Sacks is the Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould of his field; his books are true classics of medical writing, of the breadth of human mentality, and of the inner lives of the disabled. --Mary Ellen Curtin
Country | USA |
Brand | Vintage |
Manufacturer | Vintage |
Binding | Paperback |
ItemPartNumber | 9780679756972 |
Color | Multicolor |
ReleaseDate | 1996-02-13 |
UnitCount | 1 |
Format | Illustrated |
EANs | 8581000002376 |