The Man who mistook his wife for a hat: and other clinical tales
by Oliver Sacks
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0671554719
- ISBN 13
- 9780671554712
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Synopsis
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered in 1986.
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- hobshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8136
- Title
- The Man who mistook his wife for a hat
- Author
- Oliver Sacks
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671554719
- ISBN 13
- 9780671554712
- Publisher
- Summit Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1985
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