About the book
From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.
Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior.
Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.
Editions of An Anthropologist On Mars
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780679437857
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780394280943
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780394281513
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780679767176
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780679756972
- EBook
- ISBN 9780307367808
- EBook
- ISBN 9780345805881
- Audiobook
- ISBN 9780679439561
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From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.
Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior.
Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.
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What is An Anthropologist On Mars about?
From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.
Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior.
Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in An Anthropologist On Mars?
Society and Social Sciences > Psychology > Physiological psychology, neuropsychology, biopsychology
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book An Anthropologist On Mars?
Oliver Sacks
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An Anthropologist On Mars is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780679437857) and hardcover(ISBN 9780394280943) and paperback(ISBN 9780394281513) and paperback(ISBN 9780679767176) and paperback(ISBN 9780679756972) and ebook(ISBN 9780307367808) and ebook(ISBN 9780345805881) and audiobook(ISBN 9780679439561)
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