The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and other Clinical Tales - Softcover

Sacks, Oliver W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060970790 ISBN 13: 9780060970796

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1987

Presents a series of stories about men and women who, representing both medical and literary oddities, raise fundamental questions about the nature of reality

About the Author:

Oliver Sacks was educated in London, Oxford, California and New York. He is a professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of many books, including Musicophilia and Awakenings.

From Publishers Weekly:

A neurologist who claims to be equally interested in disease and people, Sacks (Awakenings, etc.) explores neurological disorders with a novelist's skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings. These cases, some of which have appeared in literary or medical publications, illustrate the tragedy of losing neurological facultiesmemory, powers of visualization, word-recognitionor the also-devastating fate of those suffering an excess of neurological functions causing such hyper states as chorea, tics, Tourette's syndrome and Parkinsonism. Still other patients experience organically based hallucinations, transports, visions, etc., usually deemed to be psychic in nature. The science of neurology, Sacks charges, stresses the abstract and computerized at the expense of judgment and emotional depthsin his view, the most important human qualities. Therapy for brain-damaged patients (by medication, accommodation, music or art) should, he asserts, be designed to help restore the essentially personal quality of the individual. First serial to New York Review of Books, The Sciences and Science; Reader's Subscription alternate. January
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• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0060970790
• ISBN 13: 9780060970796
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 233