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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

And Other Clinical Tales

Author Oliver Sacks
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  • Psychology > Cognitive Psychology > Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology > Physiological Psychology > Introduction to Neuroscience
  • Healthcare Professions > Medical Sciences: Clinical > General Neurology
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The “poet laureate of medicine” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain extraordinary new skills.

Featuring a new preface, Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: 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; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.”
 
“Insightful, compassionate, moving . . . the lucidity and power of a gifted writer.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A provocative introduction to the human mind.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Dr. Sacks’s best book. . . . One sees a wise, compassionate and very literate mind at work in these 20 stories, nearly all remarkable, and many the kind that restore one's faith in humanity.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“Dr. Sacks's most absorbing book. . . . His tales are so compelling that many of them serve as eerie metaphors not only for the condition of modern medicine but of modern man.” —New York Magazine

“This book is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.” —The Times 

“Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness.” —The Guardian 

“Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. . . . Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be.” —Sunday Times 
 
“Sacks explores neurological disorders with a novelist’s skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings.” —Publishers Weekly 
 
“Sensitive yet lively. . . . This book ranks with the very best of its genre. It will inform and entertain anyone, especially those who find medicine an intriguing and mysterious art.” —Kirkus Reviews
© Adam Scourfield
Dr. Oliver Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations. The New York Times referred to him as "the poet laureate of medicine," and over the years he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians. His memoir On the Move was published shortly before his death in August 2015. View titles by Oliver Sacks

About

The “poet laureate of medicine” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain extraordinary new skills.

Featuring a new preface, Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: 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; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.”
 
“Insightful, compassionate, moving . . . the lucidity and power of a gifted writer.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A provocative introduction to the human mind.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Dr. Sacks’s best book. . . . One sees a wise, compassionate and very literate mind at work in these 20 stories, nearly all remarkable, and many the kind that restore one's faith in humanity.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“Dr. Sacks's most absorbing book. . . . His tales are so compelling that many of them serve as eerie metaphors not only for the condition of modern medicine but of modern man.” —New York Magazine

“This book is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.” —The Times 

“Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness.” —The Guardian 

“Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. . . . Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be.” —Sunday Times 
 
“Sacks explores neurological disorders with a novelist’s skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings.” —Publishers Weekly 
 
“Sensitive yet lively. . . . This book ranks with the very best of its genre. It will inform and entertain anyone, especially those who find medicine an intriguing and mysterious art.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author

© Adam Scourfield
Dr. Oliver Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations. The New York Times referred to him as "the poet laureate of medicine," and over the years he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians. His memoir On the Move was published shortly before his death in August 2015. View titles by Oliver Sacks

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  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
    And Other Clinical Tales
    Oliver Sacks
    978-0-593-46668-1
    $12.99 US
    Ebook
    Vintage
    Sep 14, 2021
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
    And Other Clinical Tales
    Oliver Sacks
    978-0-593-46668-1
    $12.99 US
    Ebook
    Vintage
    Sep 14, 2021

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