<P><U><STRONG>The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales </STRONG></U></P>
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<P>The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales<BR>By Oliver Sacks</P>
<P>Publisher: Touchstone <BR>Number Of Pages: 256 <BR>Publication Date: 1998-04-02 <BR>ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0684853949 <BR>ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780684853949 <BR>Binding: Paperback </P>
<P>In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. </P>
<P>If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject." </P>
<P><BR>Summary: A look into the problems in the brain<BR>Rating: 5</P>
<P>Great story, fascinating, even if you are not in the field, it will give insight into how others think!</P>
<P>Summary: Brilliant Stuff!<BR>Rating: 5</P>
<P>This is a completely fascinating read! This will convice any reader of the massive complexity of the brain without reading like JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)! Oliver Sacks has a talent for riveting readers. This was the very first book of his that I read. You will not be disappointed!</P>
<P>Summary: forces one to think about what the self is really composed of<BR>Rating: 4</P>
<P>Definitely a great read--but it is far from comical (which the title sort of suggests). It deals much more with psychology/philosophy surrounding each case than techy science behind it (well, it has no techy science behind it). However, at times I found it depressing to read though.</P>
<P>Summary: Our brains are amazing.<BR>Rating: 5</P>
<P>"The Man Who Mistook His Wife," by Oliver Sacks, is a terrific collection of cases taken by neurologist Oliver Sacks--a whole host of incredibly unusual conditions suffered by an eclectic range of patients. These stories serve as terrific examples of just how fragile a balance the inner workings of our minds have to maintain lest they suddenly begin functioning in ways that can make our lives difficult. </P>
<P>These stories include the title story's Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a man who developed a condition in which he couldn't visually focus on any area larger than a couple of inches, making it so the brown of a hat looked just like the brown of his wife's hair. There's also an account in the book of a man who, many decades later, still believed he was a young sailor in World War II; a man who believed his leg was not his own; and a man whose sense of smell became insanely heightened, almost like that of a dog's. </P>
<P>In addition to individual stories, the book does an excellent job of discussing and illustrating the causes of such problems, delving into such maladies as aphasia and "Cupid's disease," as well as lots of others. This is an excellent read, and I highly recommend it. Oliver Sacks is evidently a terrific neurologist--the kind of conscientious find-an-answer-or-else kind of guy you'd like to have diagnosing you, should you ever require it--and he's a good writer as well. The book reads clearly, flows by quickly, and always entertains as it instructs. </P>
<P>This one's a keeper.</P>
<P>Summary: Interesting, but hard to pay attention<BR>Rating: 3</P>
<P>I really wanted to like this book, but in the end I had to work to finish. The patients and diagnoses are really interesting. But, the writing style made it a little hard for me to keep paying attention, he kept repeating things, and there was some conspicuous name-dropping. Overall worth the time spent reading but not as good as I'd hoped.</P>
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