An Anthropologist on Mars [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

Sacks, Oliver

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ISBN 10: 0330523600 ISBN 13: 9780330523608

Casa editrice: Pan, 2012

Riassunto

'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' Independent on Sunday 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.

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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)

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The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.

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• Editore: Pan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0330523600
• ISBN 13: 9780330523608
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 336