An Anthropologist on Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Published on 14. November 2012
336 pages
978-0-345-80588-1 (ISBN)
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To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.
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Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York.Familiar to the readers of The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, Dr. Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as "the poet laureate of medicine," and over the years he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians. His memoir On the Move was published shortly before his death in August 2015.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- The Case of the Colorblind Painter
- The Last Hippie
- A Surgeon's Life
- To See and Not See
- The Landscape of His Dreams
- Prodigies
- An Anthropologist on Mars
- Selected Bibliography
- References
- Index
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- Photographic Credits
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
