THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS • From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.
Here are seven detailed narratives of 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.
Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.
By:
Oliver Sacks Imprint: Vintage Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 202mm,
Width: 130mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 352g ISBN:9780679756972 ISBN 10: 0679756973 Pages: 352 Publication Date:13 February 1996 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Preface The Case of the Colorblind Painter The Last Hippie A Surgeon's Life To See and Not See The Landscape of His Dreams Prodigies An Anthropologist on Mars Selected Bibliography References Index
