An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

Sacks, Oliver

ISBN 10: 0679437851 / ISBN 13: 9780679437857

Edité par Knopf, 1995

N° de réf. du vendeur 0679437851-3-22229974

Synopsis :

Book by Sacks Oliver

Présentation de l'éditeur: Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior.

Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller, and manages to produce a book at once accessible and challenging. The capacity to observe the patient as a different form of human being, instead of as just an 'interesting case', is a true insight into what Medicine should be; furthermore, as the author insistently teaches, neurological diseases differ from other ailments in that they become a true portion of the persona, and ,in a sense, they belong to the patient, whereas most people consider disease to be something that 'happens' to them, an outside influence not to be confused with the true Self. It is a truly accessible and moving book, and teaches us all something about the diversity and depths of the human kind.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical...
Éditeur : Knopf
Date d'édition : 1995
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Good