The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales / Oliver Sacks.
| Author/creator | Sacks, Oliver |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Summit Books, ©1985. |
| Description | xvi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part one: Losses. The man who mistook his wife for a hat -- The lost mariner -- The disembodied lady -- The man who fell out of bed -- Hands -- Phantoms. Phantom finger ; Disappearing phantom limbs ; Positional phantoms ; Phantoms: dead or alive? -- On the level -- Eyes right! -- The President's speech -- Part two: Excesses. Witty Ticcy Ray -- Cupids disease -- A matter of identity -- Yes, father-sister -- The possessed -- Part three: Transports. Reminiscence -- Incontinent nostalgia -- A passage to India -- The dog beneath the skin -- Murder -- The visions of Hildegard -- Part four: The world of the simple. Rebecca -- A walking grove -- The twins -- The autist artist. |
| Abstract | In his most extraordinary book, "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. This book 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." |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 224-233. |
| LCCN | 85017220 |
| ISBN | 0671554719 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | RC351 .S195 1985 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |