4.4
An Anthropologist On Mars
by Oliver Sacks
'Magnificent... fascinating.' - WASHINGTON POST. 'Dr. Sacks' best book to date.' - NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'The true medical detective story.' - BOOKLIST From the author who gave us AWAKENINGS, the basis for the celebrated film starring Robert de Niro and Robin Williams. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands, and in this work he offers portraits of seven such travellers. In his lucid and compelling reconstructions of the mental acts we take for granted, Sacks provokes anew a sense of wonder at who we are.
LARGE TYPE BOOKSANECDOTESNEUROLOGY
RELEASED1997
PUBLISHERUlverscroft Large Print Books
LENGTH464
LANGUAGEEN
Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.” He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Dr. Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.oliversacks.com/about-oliver-sacks/
4.4
An Anthropologist On Mars
by Oliver Sacks
'Magnificent... fascinating.' - WASHINGTON POST. 'Dr. Sacks' best book to date.' - NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'The true medical detective story.' - BOOKLIST From the author who gave us AWAKENINGS, the basis for the celebrated film starring Robert de Niro and Robin Williams. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands, and in this work he offers portraits of seven such travellers. In his lucid and compelling reconstructions of the mental acts we take for granted, Sacks provokes anew a sense of wonder at who we are.
LARGE TYPE BOOKSANECDOTESNEUROLOGY
RELEASED1997
PUBLISHERUlverscroft Large Print Books
LENGTH464
LANGUAGEEN
Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.” He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Dr. Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.oliversacks.com/about-oliver-sacks/
