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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. Sacks chose the title of the book from the case study of one of his patients who has visual agnosia, a
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1 de ene. de 1985 · The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales. Oliver Sacks. 4.06. 224,482 ratings9,823 reviews. In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. 2023. A contemporary classics hardcover edition of Dr. Sacks’s beloved book, in which he recounts fascinating case histories of patients with neurological disorders. Introduction by Atul Gawande.
to ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat’; and, most especially, to my close friend and colleague, Dr Isabelle Rapin, in New York, who discussed many cases with me; she introduced me to Christina (the ‘disembodied lady’), and had known Jose, the ‘autist artist’, for many years when he was a child.
Featuring a new preface, Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: 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; whose limbs seem alien to them ...
17 de feb. de 2022 · The man who mistook his wife for a hat. "The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most pf us don't know exist ... Dr. Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be."
