An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales / Oliver Sacks.
The author profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white.
Record details
- ISBN: 0679756973
- ISBN: 9780679756972
- Physical Description: xix, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
- Edition: 1st Vintage Books edition
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1996.
- Copyright: ©1995
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1995. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-316) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Neurology > Anecdotes. |
| Genre: | Anecdotes. |
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