The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (NEUROLOGY, PSYCHIATRY)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harpertrade. As New. 1987. Paperback. 0060970790 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 243 pages. -- Interior text is clean, tight, and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. From the back cover: "Oliver Sacks's 'The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat' is the story of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memory and with it the greater part of their past; 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. Sack'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.' " -- with a bonus offer--; .