The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Everyman's-image
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Everyman's-image
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Everyman's-image

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Everyman's

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Format: Hardcover Language: English Publication Year: 2023 Book Title: Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat : and Other Clinical Tales Item Weight: 17.2 Oz gtin13: 9781101908310 EAN: 9781101908310 Item Length: 8.3 in Item Width: 5.3 in Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group MPN: N/A Genre: Science, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Medical Author: Oliver Sacks ISBN: 9781101908310 Number of Pages: 344 Pages Book Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser. Topic: Neurology, Neuroscience, Psychopathology / General, Medical, Life Sciences / Biology UPC: 9781101908310 Item Height: 1 in

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A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Dr. Sacks's most extraordinary book, in which the "poet laureate of medicine” (The New York Times) recounts fascinating case histories of patients with neurological disorders. An influential landmark in the tradition of writing about the body and the brain, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: 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; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.” Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

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