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An Anthropologist on Mars

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Zusatztext Writing simply and beautifully! Sacks uses individual case histories to reveal the infinite complexities of the human mind. Informationen zum Autor Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings . Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , Musicophilia , and Hallucinations , about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move , was published shortly before his death in August 2015. Klappentext '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' Independent on Sunday 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. Vorwort From the bestselling author of Awakenings , The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. Zusammenfassung From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia....

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Authors Oliver Sacks
Publisher Picador Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 30.09.2011
 
EAN 9780330523608
ISBN 978-0-330-52360-8
No. of pages 336
Dimensions 132 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
Series Picador
Subject Guides > Health

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