Content-wise: Oliver Sacks described his cases very clearly and in an interesting fashion though I felt that he got too technical at times. In A. Yasnitsky, R. Van der Veer & M. Ferrari (Eds. Hallucinations. OLIVER SACKS was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford.
The family man who snubbed his wife and child — but loved strangers — after brain surgery.
Much of it is already known from my studies but still a very interesting read.
He is the author of many books, including Awakenings, A Leg to Stand On, and Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. It was recommended to me to read during my Psychology degree. Dr. Sacks writes in a literary style and loves multiple complex sentences that make the argument indeed richer, but also intricate. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong. In his most extraordinary audiobook, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human.
I had already learnt about many of the conditions during my studies, however it was great to read about these patients through the perspective of a professional and to hear about the real people rather than just the isolated illnesses/deficits themselves.
Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. This is my first book by Oliver Sacks. ‘On the Level’ was published in The Sciences (1985). ), The Cambridge Handbook of Online version is titled "How much a dementia patient needs to know".
It is amazing what the brain can do when it is malfunctioning in some way.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 25, 2019 He is professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Welcome back. Again, the patients are interesting but the author doesn't really delve very deeply into the background context and emotional details that a layman might find interesting. There are many different conditions in this book and each chapter is another patients story. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products.
Sacks was the author of numerous best-selling books, mostly collections of In December 1939 when Sacks was six years old, he and his older brother Michael were evacuated from London to escape Although not required, Sacks chose to stay on for an additional year to undertake research, after he had taken a course by Sacks would later describe his experience on the kibbutz as an "anodyne to the lonely, torturing months in Sinclair's lab". Oliver Sacks was enormously experienced and widely respected – yet this book just didn’t hold my attention. I found this an interesting read - but without any medical training I found some of it a bit heavy going as I was not familiar with the technical language. Oliver Sacks has 92 books on Goodreads with 115969 ratings.
It might sound a dark book but it isn’t at all. He believed that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe". An Anthropologist on Mars. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. Oliver Sacks ’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is divided into four parts, each of which consists of a series of brief case studies centered around some aspect of neurology, the field of science that deals with the nervous system.. Oliver Sacks was a ground-breaking neurologist -- and a gifted storyteller who enriched our knowledge of the infinite variations of human psychology.
It is nevertheless a great book that demystifies the world of neuroscience ( or at least, part of it that is interesting and palatable to most people). Oliver Sacks was a physician, best-selling author, and professor of neurology.Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome — when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. I must admit I was expecting more science, less "novel." Oliver Wolf Sacks is not just a very good writer but he is a very good naturalist, neurologist, and the history writer as well.