
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
And Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks(Author)
Everyman's Library USA (Publisher)
Published on 3. October 2023
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-1-101-90831-0 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in the UK: London: Gerald Duckworth, 1985. Originally published in the US: New York: Summit Books, 1985.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
492 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-101-90831-0 (9781101908310)
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OLIVER SACKS (1933–2015) was born in London and educated at Oxford University and UCLA. Dr. Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. He received honors from, among others, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
About the Introducer: ATUL GAWANDE, a noted surgeon, writer, and researcher, is a professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and at Harvard Medical School. He writes on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate, and is the author of four books, including Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. He is now assistant administrator of the United States Agency for International Development.
About the Introducer: ATUL GAWANDE, a noted surgeon, writer, and researcher, is a professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and at Harvard Medical School. He writes on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate, and is the author of four books, including Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. He is now assistant administrator of the United States Agency for International Development.