Oliver Sacks was a British born neurologist that spent the majority of his professional life in the United States. In addition to being a well-known physician, Sacks was also a naturalist and author who wrote many best-selling books; including, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a /5(). An Anthropologist on Mars. This book is part of a new 6-book cover-collage design. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks has written, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers– including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette’s Syndrome except when he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales is a narrative nonfiction essay collection by Oliver Sacks originally published in Sacks documents and comments upon seven patients with neurological conditions that challenge preconceived notions about .
Oliver Sacks really treats the reader as an intelligent person in this volume, and goes into more scientific detail about, say, the way the human brain interpretes colour (I refer to The Colourblind Painter). Gripping stuff. However, Man Who MIstook His Wife For a Hat is probably more suitable than people with average (awful) attention spans. An Anthropologist on Mars. Most field interviews in their final form look smooth and polished and don't Oliver Sacks, is a doctor who specializes in disorders of the nervous system and uses some fieldworking strategies to understand the perspectives of his patients. Rather than examining them in a hospital setting, Sacks visits his. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks has written, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers- including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's Syndrome except when 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.
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales is a narrative nonfiction essay collection by Oliver Sacks originally published in Sacks documents and comments upon seven patients with neurological conditions that challenge preconceived notions about illness, disorder, adaptation, and self-perception. Seeing Voices () Followed by. The Island of the Colorblind () An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales is a book by neurologist Oliver Sacks consisting of seven medical case histories of individuals with neurological conditions such as autism and Tourette syndrome. An Anthropologist on Mars follows up on many of the themes Sacks explored in his book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, but here the essays are significantly longer and Sacks has more of an. Oliver Sacks was a British born neurologist that spent the majority of his professional life in the United States. In addition to being a well-known physician, Sacks was also a naturalist and author who wrote many best-selling books; including, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and An Anthropologist on Mars.
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