An Anthropologist On Mars,9780679756972

An Anthropologist On Mars

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ISBN13: 9780679756972
ISBN10: 0679756973
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-02-13
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.

Author Biography

Oliver Sacks was born in London, came to the United States in 1960, practices neurology in New York, and is a professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of Migraine, Awakenings, A Leg to Stand On, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Seeing Voices. He lives in City Island, where he swims and raises ferns.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi(4)
Preface xv
The Case of the Colorblind Painter
3(39)
The Last Hippie
42(35)
A Surgeon's Life
77(31)
To See and Not See
108(45)
The Landscape of His Dreams
153(35)
Prodigies
188(56)
An Anthropologist on Mars
244(53)
Selected Bibliography 297(8)
References 305(12)
Index 317

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