- Paperback: 257 pages
- Publisher: Picador; 1st edition (1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330294911
- ISBN-13: 978-0330294911
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,879 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"New York Magazine" 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.
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A lovely book,
By Ned Clarence-Smith (Austria) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) (Paperback)
I first came across Oliver Sacks in a doctor's waiting room. There, lying on the table, was a copy of his first book, "Migraine". Since I suffer from bad headaches, I picked it up and started reading. Thoroughly intrigued by the elegantly written case studies it contained, I asked the doctor if I could borrow it, took it home, and finished it that evening. I then began to notice that Mr. Sacks periodically wrote articles for the New Yorker on strange neurological cases, and every time one came out I read it with delectation. So when I saw Mr. Sack's book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" at my local bookstore I bought it immediately.
I was not let down. The book is a fascinating compendium of neurological case studies, classified into four parts: Losses, Excesses, Transports, The World of the Simple. Mr. Sacks takes us on a journey through a series of neurological disturbances with extreme effects. Initially, one reads them with appalled fascination, with a feeling of being at the Circus staring at the Bearded Lady or the Elephant Man; I was forcefully reminded of Sylvia Plath's lines in "Lady Lazarus": The Peanut-crunching crowd Shoves in to see Them unwrap me hand in foot -- The big strip tease. But Oliver Sacks writes soberly and with great compassion about his cases, and drags us away from mere peanut-crunching voyeurism to finally contemplate what the cases tell us about what it means to be us.
67 of 70 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Well written, accessible and thought-provoking,
This review is from: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) (Paperback)
This book is written in a beautifully accessible and entertaining style; it is also moving, funny and tragic in equal measures.Consisting mainly of short stories relating patient 'oddities' that the author has treated in his long career as a neurologist it manages to come across as anything but a list of dry case histories. The inclusion of the emotions of the patient as they deal with their difficulties and the reactions of the author keep this book human rather than academic. Although this is a recommended book for undergraduate students of various disciplines, it should not be discounted as a mere informative reader because of that. Anyone interested in stories of the human condition or those with a fascination/awe of the human brain will find this intriguing, engaging and interesting.
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
For those who wish to understand about brain malfunction.,
By richardadshead@btinternet.com (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) (Paperback)
Sacks delivers a powerful portrayal of what can happen in the case of brain malfunction. Where most books dealing with this subject area concentrate on the nuts and bolts of brain function Sack's text brings it to life by focusing on the real experiances of patients known to him. By doing this Sack's creates real understanding of how brain malfunction can impact on ordinary lives. The reading of the book itself is an experience. The cases themselves are both terrifying and intriguing and at the same time inspiring. This book is recommended to anyone as an experience alone and will be of particular use and importance to anyone interested in the fragility of the human mind/brain. Highly recommended to students of psychology and psychiatry.
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