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As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world and how we relate to those around us.
Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre – patients for whom disorientation and alienation – but also adaptation – are inescapable facts of life.
As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world and how we relate to those around us.
Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre – patients for whom disorientation and alienation – but also adaptation – are inescapable facts of life.
Seven paradoxical tales of patients adapting to neurological conditions including autism, Asperger’s syndrome, amnesia and Tourette’s syndrome.
Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, bestselling author, and
professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York
Times has referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine'.
He is best known for his collections of neurological case
histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat,
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on
Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had
survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early
twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated
feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Dr Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New
York Review of Books, before his death in August 2015. Oliver
Sacks, M.D. was a physician, bestselling author, and professor of
neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has
referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine'.
He is best known for his collections of neurological case
histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat,
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on
Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had
survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early
twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated
feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Dr Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New
York Review of Books, before his death in August 2015. Jonathan
Davis is a critically acclaimed narrator and voiceover actor. He
has narrated more than 350 audiobooks, including a variety of
bestsellers and award-winners. Davis is a three-time recipient and
14-time nominee of the celebrated Audie Award. He is also active in
the voiceover industry providing voice work for films,
documentaries, video games and animation.
'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks
presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of
his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any
collection of short fictional stories.'
*The Independent on Sunday*
'Writing simply and beautifully, Sacks uses individual case
histories to reveal the infinite complexities of the human
mind.'
*The Daily Mail*
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