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    <body><![CDATA[The case studies make the psychological disorders much more interesting and accessible.  My favorites were the chapters about the turretic surgeon and the blind man who regains his vision.  Reading about his inability to conceive of sight made me think about the likelihood that there are other sense...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2349696">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve always wanted to read something by Oliver Sacks (the doctor from Awakenings). I also wanted to read about autism or Temple Grandin. One of the “tales” in the book focuses on Temple, another focuses on prodigies and autism. The other five focus on neurological disorders related to vision....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38506043">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cant recall if its in the acknowledgements or I read on her site, but C.S. Friedman mentioned this book when she was discussing the different types of Gueran in her book This Alien Shore (which i ABSOLUTELY LOVE AND AM OBSESSED WITH), so i decided to borrow it and have a read.<br/><br/>Oliver Sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46018170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Oliver Sacks' better books.  All of the case studies (with the exception of the last one) are about artists with some sort of neurological issue, but they all manage to keep on creating anyway.  The last case, a chapter that gives a title to the book, is one of his best.  In trying not to giv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47360652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was assigned to read one of these essays for an art class.  I was ionterested enough in the premis of his essays to read more but eventually became bogged down in footnotes.  While trying to reach out to a broader audience, this neurologist gets trapped in technicalities and backgroud.   Great edi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40999582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm enjoying this exploration of the various ways in which the mind can run awry, or react in unexpected ways. I did wish he'd explained Tourette's better, though--there was a lot about how people cope with it and how it makes them behave, but not why. Perhaps because it's not particularly well unde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78394287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Oliver Sacks. I like him even more after reading this book, which revealed that he always carries a large Japanese fan so that he will not become overheated. Seriously though, this was a really fascinating book. He delves into the natural history of many of the disorders as he describes each ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57097915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book.  Psych is fascinating to me, so this book is fascinating to me.  I was going to say that you don't have to like psychology to like this book, but I don't think that's true.  He goes REALLY IN DEPTH at times into the psych of it all (even the changing history of the field and how we t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67668716">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very solid collection of stories, <em>An Anthropologist on Mars</em> is an assortment of some of author and neurologist Oliver W. Sacks' more interesting patients and their unique cases. Each chapter is the story of an individual diagnosed with an unique psychiatric condition, covering issues familiar to (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44654160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book felt sort of like fate, because I’d first heard of the author several years ago while chatting with a co-worker about his current book club reading. I was intrigued by the title, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and even more intrigued when I was told that it wasn’t fict...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18306578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the movie version of Awakenings back in the early 90's, and I thought it was ok, but it certainly didn't make me want to run out and read the book upon which it was based.  But after reading An Anthropologist on Mars, I have to say I am a newly-converted Oliver Sacks fan.  The kind of research...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18274576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some really interesting cases of how neurological disorders lead to strange behaviors and abilities. I didn’t get the impression that any of the cases outlined in the book was Sacks’s own patient. Somehow he just hears of a case and goes spends some time investigating it. As a result, the case s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8924249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another excellent set of case-histories from Sacks.  He's just an amazing writer-- as good describing people and scenes as the science behind his patients' various neurological gifts and afflictions.  And that science is fascinating: the cases in this book dealt with a wide variety of issues-- color...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58600136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dr. Sacks is an amazing writer, and an amazing psychologist. This book contains seven vignettes of patients he has seen over the years whose fascinating neurological conditions have opened up new insights into how the brain works, how neuronal firings are converted into memory, and how much of the h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79522839">more...</a>]]></body>
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