An Anthropologist on Mars

Oliver Sacks, M.D., Oliver Sacks, M.D., Jonathan Davis

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English

Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
01 September 2019

Humanities; Psychology

As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars 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 M.D.
Read by: Oliver Sacks M.D., Jonathan Davis
Imprint: Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 224g
ISBN: 9781529011630
ISBN 10: 1529011639
Publication Date: 01 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for An Anthropologist on Mars

'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories.' -- The Independent on Sunday 'Writing simply and beautifully, Sacks uses individual case histories to reveal the infinite complexities of the human mind.' -- The Daily Mail