The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales By Oliver W. Sacks ISBN: 9781439503058 Published: 2008 Number of Pages: 243 Edition: Reprint Binding: Library

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Paw Prints 2008-06-26 Description: In his most extraordinary audiobook, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth 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; patients no longer able to recognize people and common objects; patients stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; patients whose limbs have become alien; patients 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.”

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number: 98004723

International Standard Book Number: 1439503052 : PBD: 9781439503058 : PBD
   - Terms of availability: $24.00

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: RC351
   - Item number: .S195 1998

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 21
   - Classification number: 616.8

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Sacks, Oliver W.

Title Statement
   - Title: The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales /
   - Remainder of title: And Other Clinical Tales
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Oliver Sacks.

Edition Statement: 1st Touchstone ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York, NY :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Simon & Schuster,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 1998.

Physical Description
   - Extent: x, 243 p. :
   - Other physical details: ill. ;
   - Dimensions: 22 cm.