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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (1985 original; edició 1998)

de Oliver Sacks (Autor)

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In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th 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."… (més)
Membre:Jwagen
Títol:The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Autors:Oliver Sacks (Autor)
Informació:Touchstone (1998), 256 pages
Col·leccions:La teva biblioteca
Valoració:*****
Etiquetes:to-read

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    The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human de V. S. Ramachandran (lorax)
  2. 30
    Blindsight de Peter Watts (hnau)
    hnau: Science fiction inspired by the works of Oliver Sacks (among others).
  3. 20
    Toscanini's Fumble: And Other Tales of Clinical Neurology de Harold L. Klawans (jordantaylor)
  4. 20
    Awakenings de Oliver Sacks (chwiggy)
  5. 20
    Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain de Timothy Verstynen (Katya0133)
    Katya0133: A humorous and decidedly irreverent take on neuroscience which nonetheless manages to be incredibly informative.
  6. 20
    Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology de Jenni A. Ogden (bluepiano)
    bluepiano: I read this for pleasure but have since learned it's used as a textbook. Quite probably it's not got so broad an appeal as Sacks' book but to me the Ogden not only seems more substantial but it's even more the page-turner.
  7. 20
    The Man Who Forgot How to Read: A Memoir de Howard Engel (meggyweg)
  8. 10
    Love's Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy de Irvin Yalom (clairecc)
  9. 10
    Bomb in the Brain : A Heroic Tale of Science, Surgery, and Survival de Steve Fishman (meggyweg)
  10. 10
    A Journey Round My Skull de Frigyes Karinthy (meggyweg)
  11. 00
    Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain de Antonio Damasio (ShaneTierney)
  12. 00
    The Burning House de Jay Ingram (geophile)
  13. 00
    The Barmaid's Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science de Jay Ingram (geophile)
  14. 00
    On the Move: A Life de Oliver Sacks (chwiggy)
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    The Rationality of Emotion de Ronald De Sousa (ShaneTierney)
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    The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World de Iain McGilchrist (wester)
    wester: I don't know why Sacks' book is not mentioned in the bibliography of McGilchrists book, as it contains many excellent illustrations of its important points. The style is also similar: medical, but personal, poetic and accessible.
  17. 00
    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery de Sam Kean (nessreader)
  18. 15
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest de Ken Kesey (lucyknows)
    lucyknows: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey may be paired with The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks or even Awakenings by the same author. All three books explore the idea that once a person becomes ill or is institutionalised, they lose their rights and privileges.… (més)
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In addition to possessing the technical skills of a 20th-century doctor, the London-born Dr. Sacks, a professor of clinical neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, sees the human condition like a philosopher-poet. The resultant mixture is insightful, compassionate, moving and, on occasion, simply infuriating. One could call these essays neurological case histories, and correctly so, although Dr. Sacks' own expression -''clinical tales'' - is far more apt. Dr. Sacks tells some two dozen stories about people who are also patients, and who manifest strange and striking peculiarities of perception, emotion, language, thought, memory or action. And he recounts these histories with the lucidity and power of a gifted short-story writer.
 
The book deserves to be widely read whether for its message, or as an easy introduction to neurological symptoms, or simply as a collection of moving tales. The reader should, however, bring to it a little scepticism, for outside Sack's clinic, things do not always fall out quite so pat.
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Sacks, Oliverautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Cassel, BooTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Davis, JonathanNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Goldberg, CarinDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Moll-Huber, P.M.Traductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th 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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