An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
An Anthropologist On Mars - Seven Paradoxical Tales
Author: Oliver Sacks
ISBN-13: 9780679437857
ISBN-10: 0679437851
Publication Date: 2/7/1995
Publisher: Knopf
Hardcover
5.65 x 8.6 inches, 332 pages
Detailed and fascinating portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. "Among doctors who write with acuity and grace, Sacks ( The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) takes a higher place with each successive book.... enlarges our view of the nature of human experience." --Publisher's Weekly "... Dr. Sacks's best book to date." --The New York Time Book Review
Synopsis
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales is a 1995 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks consisting of seven medical case histories of individuals with neurological conditions such as autism and Tourette syndrome.
Reviews
On Aug 27 2013, CloggieDownunder said:
An Anthropologist on Mars is the sixth book by neurologist Oliver Wolf Sacks and deals with seven intriguing case studies. The first is an artist who becomes completely colour-blind (cerebral achromatopsia) and details both the unimaginable impact this has on normal life, and the adaptation that can make life liveable. The second involves amnesia and looks at different ways of forming memory. The third deals with Tourette’s syndrome in a surgeon with a pilot’s licence, shows both the funny and the dark sides of this condition, and the effect of medications. The fourth examines the effect of regaining sight on a person who has been blind since childhood. The fifth involves seizures of reminiscence and examines what memory actually is. The sixth deals with an autistic savant artist, and the final case study is about the well-known Aspergian, Temple Grandin. It is this remarkable woman who, in explaining what it feels like to try to understand normal human behaviour, lends her phrase to the title, An Anthropologist on Mars. Grandin gives a fascinating insight into the autistic spectrum, explaining that autistic people Think in Pictures (the title of her own book). Occasionally Sacks is rather too generous with technical detail jargon, so the reader may be tempted to skim or skip. The footnotes enlarge on or update the text, the book is fully indexed and there is a bibliography for those interested in further reading. This book is interesting, occasionally scary and will make the reader appreciate the brain they have.
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- Bookseller
- Worldwide Collectibles (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0906202303
- Title
- An Anthropologist On Mars
- Author
- Oliver Sacks
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good condition - no jacket, light page edge soiling
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 332
- Size
- 5.65 x 8.6 inches
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, novel
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