description: In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (NY Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual &amp; intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories &amp; with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people &amp; common objects; who are stricken with violent tics &amp; grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Sacks' splendid &amp; sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, &amp; they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live &amp; feel as they do. A great healer, he never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."Narrated by the author.
language: English
title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales
titlecomplete: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales
genres: Medicine, Short Stories, Mental Health, Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, Nonfiction, Health, Essays, Medical
ratings_count: 213737
publisher: Spoken Arts Audio