The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales | 
| Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Touchstone
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  103 reviews
Sales Rank: 838
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0684853949
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8
EAN: 9780684853949
ASIN: 0684853949
Publication Date: April 2, 1998
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Condition: As pictured, minor wear, clean text, firm binding.
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Product Description
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 retarded 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."
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 Wonderful book! July 20, 2008
I bought this book years ago and I still think it's one of the best I ever read. It's a permanent part of my library.
 Good July 15, 2008
While reading "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," I had the feeling I was reading a book written by a serious doctor who has the giddy sense of also being a writer. Sacks has a good hand at writing, more or less, until he steers into the circular quagmire of medical and philosophical notation. The case studies are fascinating, often eerie, tales of bodies and mental wiring gone mad. Less cheers for the medical explanations that dips too far into scientific minutiae.
Extremely Helpful June 9, 2008
This book has helped me in so many ways to understand the human mind. I can't say enough about this book, except to tell people to buy it.
 Be thankful after reading this book May 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Be thankful after reading this book,
Be thankful you do not have one of these very interesting yet severe neuropsychological illnesses.
a great book, very interesting, it teaches you a lot about the human body and mind, and as someone famous once said, it shows you how "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong".
I would not miss it!
A must read! April 3, 2008
This book was assigned text for a neuropsych. class I had during my undergraduate degree. It was by far the best text I've had assigned in any class. This book, along with Ramachandran's, Phantom's in the Brain, was the first time I even considered the Nature side of the Nature/Nurture debate. I will never forget the stories. Learning about these cases with brain disorders left me with such a sense of awe for what the brain can do. Sacks has a wonderful writing style that turns philosophical at the end of each story, so you are left with a lot of food for thought. It is also a great exercise to follow his choices at each step and weight it against what you may have done.
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