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An edition of An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)

An anthropologist on Mars

seven paradoxical tales

1st ed.
  • 4.40 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 65 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands.

An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers - including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior.

These are paradoxical tales, for neurological disease can conduct one to other modes of being that - however abnormal they may be to our way of thinking - may develop virtues and beauties of their own. The exploration of these individual lives is not one that can be made in a consulting room or office, and Sacks has taken off his white coat and deserted the hospital, by and large, to join his subjects in their own environments.

He feels, he says, in part like a neuroanthropologist, but most of all like a physician, called here and there to make house calls, house calls at the far border of experience. Along the way, he shows us a new perspective on the way our brains construct our individual worlds. In his lucid and compelling reconstructions of the mental acts we take for granted - the act of seeing, the transport of memory, the notion of color - Oliver Sacks provokes anew a sense of wonder at who we are.

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English
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-315) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.8
Library of Congress
RC351 .S1948 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 327 p. :
Number of pages
327

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1101816M
Internet Archive
anthropologiston00sack
ISBN 10
0679437851
LCCN
94026733
OCLC/WorldCat
30810706
Library Thing
27602
Goodreads
819802

Work Description

Zeven portretten van buitengewone, neurologische patiënten.

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