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An Anthropologist on Mars

By (author) Oliver Sacks
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Published: 10th May 2012
Dimensions: w 125mm h 198mm d 25mm
Weight: 275g
Interest age: From 18 years
ISBN-10: 0330523600
ISBN-13: 9780330523608
Barcode No: 9780330523608
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Synopsis
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. '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

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Writing simply and beautifully, Sacks uses individual case histories to reveal the infinite complexities of the human mind. * Daily Mail * Sacks' great gift is his capacity to place himself in the position of his subjects, to see the world the way they see it and to empathize with their condition with great compassion but without patronage or pity. * Daily Telegraph *