An Anthropologist on Mars

Oliver Sacks

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English

Picador
01 July 2012

Psychology; Popular psychology

As with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us. Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre; patients for whom disorientation and alienation - but also adaptation - are inescapable facts of life.

By: Oliver Sacks
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 239g
ISBN: 9780330523608
ISBN 10: 0330523600
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 July 2012
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film) and Musicophilia. Born in London and educated at Oxford, he now lives in New York City, where he is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is the first, and only, Columbia University Artist, and is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. For more information, visit www.oliversacks.com

Reviews for An Anthropologist on Mars

Sacks' great gift is his capacity to place himself in the position of his subjects, to see the world the way they see it and to empathize with their condition with great compassion but without patronage or pity. * Daily Telegraph * Writing simply and beautifully, Sacks uses individual case histories to reveal the infinite complexities of the human mind. * Daily Mail *