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• Title:The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales / Oliver Sacks.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 1998, ©1985.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY Great ReadsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WZ305 .S22 1985a
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-11-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Neurology--Anecdotes.
  
• Medical Subjects: Mental Disorders.
  
• Genre/Form:Anecdotes.
  
• Edition:1st Touchstone ed.
  
• Description:x, 243 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
  
• 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 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."
  
• Notes:"A Touchstone book."
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-243).
  
• ISBN:0684853949
  9780684853949 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Losses: Introduction
  Man who mistook his wife for a hat
  Lost mariner
  Disembodied lady
  Man who fell out of bed
  Hands
  Phantoms
  On the level
  Eyes right!
  President's speech
  Excesses: Introduction
  Witty ticcy ray
  Cupid's disease
  Matter of identity
  Yes, father-sister
  Possessed
  Transports: Introduction
  Reminiscence
  Incontinent nostalgia
  Passage to India
  Dog beneath the skin
  Murder
  Visions of Hildegard
  World of the simple: Rebecca
  Walking grove
  Twins
  Autist artist
  Bibliography.