{"product_id":"the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-and-other-clinical-tales","title":"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Spiral Bound)","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Insightful, compassionate, moving . . . the lucidity and power of a gifted writer.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A provocative introduction to the human mind.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dr. Sacks's best book. . . . One sees a wise, compassionate and very literate mind at work in these 20 stories, nearly all remarkable, and many the kind that restore one's faith in humanity.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dr. Sacks's most absorbing book. . . . His tales are so compelling that many of them serve as eerie metaphors not only for the condition of modern medicine but of modern man\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction . . . Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sacks explores neurological disorders with a novelist's skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sensitive yet lively. . . . This book ranks with the very best of its genre. It will inform and entertain anyone, especially those who find medicine an intriguing and mysterious art.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOliver Sacks\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \n\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including \n\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, \u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eHallucinations, \u003c\/i\u003e about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \n\u003ci\u003eOn the Move\u003c\/i\u003e was published shortly before his death in August 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS \u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eIn his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e and \"poet laureate of medicine\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain extraordinary new skills. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness.\"\u003ci\u003e--The \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing a new preface, Oliver Sacks's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: \"the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sacks, Oliver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePub Date:\u003c\/b\u003e September 14, 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/b\u003e Psychology|Clinical Psychology|Medical|Neurology|Cooking|General|Biography \u0026amp; Autobiography|Medical (Incl. 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