In Dr Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, each tale is a unique and deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity. Available in store and online.
Born OTD in 1933, British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author, Oliver Sacks. In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have lost their memories & with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted & yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
