false <![CDATA[The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170618771m/63697.jpg 63697 33 In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" <I>(The New York Times)</I> recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's <I>The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat</I> 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.<P>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."<P> 882844 book 1985 The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales total:6484|5:2017|4:2799|3:1387|2:238|1:45| 6484 25954 9897 690 2 6 false false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 05 18:25:38 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 15 07:22:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 7 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 14:39:53 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 09 16:24:18 -0700 2008 On page 112 of the paperback edition of your book, the second paragraph begins with the following sentence:
"And with this, no feeling that he has lost feeling (for the feeling he has lost), no feeling that he has lost the depth, that unfathomable, mysterious, myriad-...more...]]> 4 2 false true Sun Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Thu May 15 07:21:04 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 07:32:24 -0700 2008
A collection of stories about patients with neurological disorders—strange, unique, and human.

“The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”—Dr. P cannot recognize faces or ...more...]]> 5 4 false false Mon Apr 16 09:34:45 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 16 09:45:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 06:36:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 06:46:51 -0700 2009 I did enjoy reading Sacks' observations and perceptions of his patients ('clients') with their various - and quite bizarre - ailments and conditions, but only on the level of intellectual curiosity.
On another (visceral?) level my reactions were much more...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Mar 19 17:58:57 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 08:32:08 -0700 2008 While I was reading this chapter of this book, I came to realize that our hearing aid and our vision for music are very important because when Dr. P lost his vivid imagination, he relied on the body-music instead of body-image. Dr. P had a “massive tumou...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 14 14:03:55 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 09 20:20:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 06:05:13 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 13:59:49 -0700 2008
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HOLY COW. It was SO SO INTERESTING! I still remember some of the stories of people with neurologica...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 07:20:04 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 07:31:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jun 04 16:06:24 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 16:07:05 -0700 2009 The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat. It was just a regular day Dr P a musician came to see the neurologist. Later on, he was free to leave because there was nothing wrong that could be detected because he was just...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Fri Sep 25 23:21:29 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 23:37:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 11:57:44 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 12:06:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon May 12 00:26:16 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 00:30:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 14:25:41 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 14:45:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=63697