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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.
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; 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.”
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Neurology -, Anecdotes, Neurology, Nervous system, Mental Disorders, Psychology, pathological, Emoties, Neurologie, Cognitie, Synesthesie, Psychoanalysis, Pathological Psychology, Large type books, nyt:science=2015-10-11, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Neurologische aspecten, Neurologische aandoeningen, Casussen, Neuropsychiatrie, Personnes atteintes de lésions cérébrales, Malades mentaux, Études de cas, Encéphalopathies, Manifestations neurologiques, Cas, Études de, Bizarrerie, Étude de cas, Fantasme, Maladie mentale, Mentally ill, Case studies, Mentally Ill Persons, Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale, Troubles psychotiques, Science, Neuropsychology, Humans, Popular WorksShowing 10 featured editions. View all 56 editions?
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De man die zijn vrouw voor een hoed hield
2007, Meulenhoff
in Dutch
- 24e dr.
9029080671 9789029080675
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Chelovek, kotoryi prini Łal zhenu za shli Ła Łpu: i drugie istorii iz vrachebnoi praktiki
2006, Science Press
in Russian
5902626013 9785902626015
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L'uomo che scambiò sua moglie per un cappello
2001, Adelphi
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in Italian
8845916251 9788845916250
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
1998, Simon & Schuster
in English
0684853949 9780684853949
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Homem Que Confundiu Sua Mulher com um Chapéu, O
1997, Companhia das Letras
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8571646899 9788571646896
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De man die zijn vrouw voor een hoed hield
1997, Meulenhoff
in Dutch
- 15e dr.
9029054735 9789029054737
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L'homme qui prenait sa femme pour un chapeau et autres récits cliniques
March 2, 1992, Seuil
Mass Market Paperback
in French
2020146304 9782020146302
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
1988, Harper & Row
in English
0060970790 9780060970796
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L'homme qui prenait sa femme pour un chapeau: et autres récits cliniques
1988, Seuil
in French
2020101017 9782020101011
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
1986, HarperPerennial
0060970790 9780060970796
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