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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) by: Oliver Sacks List Price: £8.99 Healthy Living Books Price: £5.84 You Save: £3.15 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 150 EAN: 9780330294911 ISBN: 0330294911 Label: Picador Manufacturer: Picador Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: November 07, 1986 Publisher: Picador Studio: Picador Sales Rank: 382 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Synopsis: "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist ...Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be' - "Sunday Times". 'Who is this book for? Who is it not for? It 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". 'This is, in the best sense, a serious book. It is, indeed, a wonderful book, by which I mean not only that it is excellent (which it is) but also that it is full of wonder, wonders and wondering. He brings to these often unhappy people understanding, sympathy and respect. Sacks is always learning from his patients, marvelling at them, widening his own understanding and ours' - "Punch". Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Interesting readFairly well written, and as someone who has no prior background in this field, it was easy to understand and descriptive enough to be interesting. it was not too technical that i got bogged down with terms, unlike some other neurology books i've read. Rating:  - A little disappointingAn interesting book though I have to admit I didn't enjoy the writing style. I find Sacks to be overly academic (I'm in the medical field myself) and his use of technical jargon can be somewhat off putting. Unlike the popular work Phantoms of the Brains Sacks seems uninterested in explaining the ideas in scientific terms in any great detail, he instead takes a more anthropological approach and merely details the cases. Whilst the cases themselves are off considerable interest I found his analysis ... Read More: Rating:  - A Fascinating ReadA neurologist, Oliver Sacks, discussed and brought to light the neurological disorders in case by case in this book with an interesting choice of the title: "Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat." This is the first book by Sacks that I have read, and I found his writing style to be quite enjoyable. Not only that, this book contains an extraordinary collection of cases of individuals with neurological disorders that brings one to understand a bit on how human brain works. While this book ... Read More: Rating: - A lovely bookI first came across Oliver Sacks in a doctor's waiting room. There, lying on the table, was a copy of his first book, "Migraine". Since I suffer from bad headaches, I picked it up and started reading. Thoroughly intrigued by the elegantly written case studies it contained, I asked the doctor if I could borrow it, took it home, and finished it that evening. I then began to notice that Mr. Sacks periodically wrote articles for the New Yorker on strange neurological cases, and every time one came out ... Read More: Rating: - Neurology cases at its bestRomantic science is the way forward, it has all the classical science terms and names of the deficits as to still keep it factual, but more importantly has the element of human contact and understanding the patients as people. If you read this book you shall see that in some cases of neurology such as autism, that we wouldnt find out their concrete talents and only think of them as hopeless beings, this is evident in allmost all the chapters, to fully appreciate and understand their illnes one must ... Read More: |
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