Title:
The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales / Oliver Sacks.
ISBN:
9780671554712
9780060970796
9780684853949
9780593466674
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Touchstone edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Physical Description:
x, 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
"A Touchstone book."
Contents:
pt. 1. Losses. The man who mistook his wife for a hat -- The lost mariner -- The disembodied lady -- The man who fell out of bed -- Hands -- Phantoms -- On the level -- Eyes right! -- The president's speech -- pt. 2. Excesses. Witty ticcy Ray -- Cupid's disease -- A matter of identity -- Yes, father-sister -- The possessed -- pt. 3. Transports. Reminiscence -- Incontinent nostalgia -- A passage to India -- The dog beneath the skin -- Murder -- The visions of Hildegard -- pt. 4. The world of the simple. Rebecca -- A walking grove -- The twins -- The autist artist.
Summary:
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 intellectually challenged 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."
OCLC Number:
ocm38311664
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