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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a selfhimselfhe cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities; who have been dismissed as autistic or retarded, yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human.


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⚡️Book Title : The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
⚡Book Author : Oliver Sacks
⚡Page : 243 pages
⚡Published April 2nd 1998 by Touchstone (first published 1985)

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a selfhimselfhe cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities; who have been dismissed as autistic or retarded, yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human.