The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales / Oliver Sacks
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster , 1998.Edition: 1st Touchstone edDescription: x, 243 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780684853949
- 616.8 SAC
- RC351 .S195 1998
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"A Touchstone book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-243).
A neurologist who claims to be equally interested in disease and people, Sacks explores neurological disorders with a novelist's skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings. These cases, some of which have appeared in literary or medical publications, illustrate the tragedy of losing neurological facultiesmemory, powers of visualization, word-recognitionor the also-devastating fate of those suffering an excess of neurological functions causing such hyper states as chorea, tics, Tourette's syndrome and Parkinsonism. Still other patients experience organically based hallucinations, transports, visions, etc., usually deemed to be psychic in nature. The science of neurology, Sacks charges, stresses the abstract and computerized at the expense of judgment and emotional depthsin his view, the most important human qualities. Therapy for brain-damaged patients (by medication, accommodation, music or art) should, he asserts, be designed to help restore the essentially personal quality of the individual.
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