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The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales

Title
The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales / Oliver Sacks.
Author
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Publication
New York : Harper Perennial Library, 1990.

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Description
x, 243 pages : illustrations; 21cm.
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 Sack's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is the story of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memory and with it the greater part of their past; 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. Sack'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." --
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Anecdotes
  • Anecdotes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 234-243.
Contents
PART ONE: Losses -- introduction -- 1 The Man who mistook his wife for a hat -- 2 The Lost mariner -- 3 The Disembodied lady -- 4 The Man who fell out of bed -- 5 Hands -- 6 Phantoms -- 7 On the level -- 8 Eyes right! -- 9 The President's speech -- PART TWO: Excesses -- Introduction -- 10 Witty Ticcy Ray -- 11 Cupid's disease -- 12 A Matter of identity -- 13 Yes, Father-Sister -- 14 The Possessed -- PART THREE: Transports -- Introduction 15 Reminiscence -- 16 Incontinent nostalgia -- 17 A Passage to India -- 18 The Dog beneath the skin -- 19 Murder -- 20 The Visions of Hildegard -- PART FOUR: The world of the simple -- Introduction -- 21 Rebecca -- 22 A Walking grove -- 23 The Twins -- 24 The Autist artist.
ISBN
  • 0060970790
  • 9780060970796
LCCN
86045686
OCLC
  • ocm22773478
  • 22773478
  • SCSB-13962707
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library