An Anthropologist On Mars - Rilegato

Sacks, Oliver

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0394280946 ISBN 13: 9780394280943

Casa editrice: Knopf Canada, 1995

Riassunto

Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits 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, and manages to produce a book at once accessible and challenging. The capacity to observe the patient as a different form of human being, instead of as just an 'interesting case', is a true insight into what Medicine should be; furthermore, as the author insistently teaches, neurological diseases differ from other ailments in that they become a true portion of the persona, and ,in a sense, they belong to the patient, whereas most people consider disease to be something that 'happens' to them, an outside influence not to be confused with the true Self. It is a truly accessible and moving book, and teaches us all something about the diversity and depths of the human kind.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Knopf Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0394280946
• ISBN 13: 9780394280943
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida