The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

摘要: In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts case histories patients lost in bizarre, apparently inescapable world neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" tells stories individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: who have their memories them greater part pasts; are no longer able to recognize people common objects; stricken violent tics grimaces or shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs become alien; been dismissed as retarded yet gifted uncanny artistic mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, Dr. splendid sympathetic telling, deeply human. They studies life struggling against incredible adversity, they enable us enter neurologically impaired, imagine our hearts what it must be live feel do. A healer, Sacks never loses sight medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."