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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks | Summary & Study Guide
 
 
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks | Summary & Study Guide [Kindle Edition]

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Oliver Sacks is a professor of clinical neurology who has spent years seeing patients. He has compiled some of his more interesting, more personal stories into one volume to share with the world. His goal in writing the book is to present the personal side of neurosis. Often books of this sort are written as a series of case studies full of medical terminology that leaves the average reader frustrated and unwilling to finish the book. Sacks mixes his clinical jargon with a personal empathy for his patients, drawing the reader in and allowing even the most inexperienced reader to gain a better understanding of the lives of the mentally disabled.

This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 149 KB
  • Print Length: 48 pages
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004HIM7C0
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #95,667 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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22 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By Dave F
Format:Kindle Edition
The main thing to point out about this overpriced book is that it is NOT the actual book by Oliver Sacks, but MERELY A STUDY GUIDE to that book. Perhaps Amazon could have made that clearer, especially since at present they appear to sell the study guide to the book but not the book itself.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I got this book believing that it was not only a study guide but that it also was the actual book in question - it is not. I read the reviews and all the reviews that I read were for the book that I thought that i was going to purchase and the one that I wanted to get. What I got was a very overpriced, short, subjective "Study Guide". Why have reviews for how fantasic "The man who mistook this wife for a hat" is when this is not in fact what is being offered for purchase? - very misleading and a very disappointed customer.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Not what it seems 14 Dec 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book was my first Kindle buy. I have an interest in studying Psychology and a website recommended the book on their reading list, so I thought Id have a look.

Im finding it very interesting but highly annoying. It lists multiple cases in precis formate, with about a page per case. It tells you what was wrong with the patient and in a few words how they recovered. The author speaks like a student who has read the full paper and just giving you a briefing or general over view of what it was about. On numerous occasions I felt short changed wanting to know more. It is extremely frustrating.

To be happy I would have to see more detail for each patient and do research to actually give a all round understanding.

He mentions ghosting of the amputees missing body parts, which my father has had, I found it a bit limited in the results.

I think its a good book because it makes you think about things, the whys people act the way they do etc., but so far the frustration is outwaying the enjoyment. I hope to finish the book but it may be binned before then due to this problem.
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