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008			111007s1998 nyu b 000 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aRC351 _b.S195 1998
082	0	0	_a616.8 SAC
100	1		_aSacks, Oliver W.
245	1	4	_aThe man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales _c/ Oliver Sacks
250			_a1st Touchstone ed.
260			_aNew York, NY _b: Simon & Schuster _c, 1998.
300			_ax, 243 p. _c; 22 cm.
500			_a"A Touchstone book."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 234-243).
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aNeurology _x--Anecdotes
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