The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
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In his most extraordinary book, â‚¬Å“one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth centuryâ‚¬Â (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.

Oliver Sacksâ‚¬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. Sacksâ‚¬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 medicineâ‚¬s ultimate responsibility: â‚¬Å“the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.â‚¬Â
Country USA
Brand Touchstone
Manufacturer Touchstone
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780684853949
ReleaseDate 1998-04-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780684853949

Country	USA
Brand	Touchstone
Manufacturer	Touchstone
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780684853949
ReleaseDate	1998-04-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780684853949

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

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