Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

And Other Clinical Tales

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Oliver Sacks's [book] tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents"--Back cover.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780593466674
• ISBN-10: 0593466675
• Artikelnr.: 61480539

Autorenporträt

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.

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