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The stories in An Anthropologist on Mars are medical case reports not unlike the classic tales of Berton Roueché 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
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. As with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us. Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre; patients for whom disorientation and alienation - but also adaptation - are inescapable facts of life. From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780330523608
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Book Description Condition: New. The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # 9780330523608
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Book Description Condition: New. The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. 2012. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # 9780330523608
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