The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
by Oliver Sacks, Jonathan Davis (Read by)
ISBN-10: 1491514078
ISBN-13: 9781491514078
$9.99
Book Specs
CD MP3
Brilliance Audio
Published on
Apr 15, 2014
Edition
st Edition
Dimensions
5.50x5.50x0.25 Inches
Weight
0.15 Pounds
About the Book
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."