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003			OCoLC
005			20141016144651.0
008			980121s1998 nyu b 000 0 eng
010			_a98004723
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050	0	0	_aRC351 _b.S195 1998
060		4	_aWM 140 _bS121 1998
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100	1		_aSacks, Oliver W. _93661
245	1	4	_aThe man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales / _cOliver Sacks.
250			_a1st Touchstone ed.
260			_aNew York, NY : _bSimon & Schuster, _c1998.
300			_ax, 243 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
500			_a"A Touchstone book."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 234-243)
505	0		_aLosses: Introduction -- Man who mistook his wife for a hat -- Lost mariner -- Disembodied lady -- Man who fell out of bed -- Hands -- Phantoms -- On the level -- Eyes right! -- President's speech -- Excesses: Introduction -- Witty ticcy ray -- Cupid's disease -- Matter of identity -- Yes, father-sister -- Possessed -- Transports: Introduction -- Reminiscence -- Incontinent nostalgia -- Passage to India -- Dog beneath the skin -- Murder -- Visions of Hildegard -- World of the simple: Rebecca -- Walking grove -- Twins -- Autist artist -- Bibliography.
520			_aIn 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. 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."
650		0	_aNeurology _vAnecdotes. _93662
650	1	2	_aMental Disorders _vPopular Works. _93663
650	1	2	_aNervous System Diseases _vPopular Works. _93664
650	1	2	_aNeurology _vPopular Works. _93665
650	2	2	_aNeurology _vAnecdotes. _93666
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon051/98004723.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon041/98004723.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/98004723-t.html
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