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An anthropologist on Mars

In his lucid and compelling reconstructions of the mental acts we take for granted -- the act of seeing, the transport of memory, empathy for others -- Oliver Sacks provokes anew a sense of wonder at who we are. -- container.

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  • "The author profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white."
  • "In his lucid and compelling reconstructions of the mental acts we take for granted -- the act of seeing, the transport of memory, empathy for others -- Oliver Sacks provokes anew a sense of wonder at who we are. -- container."@en
  • "Case histories of people with neurological disorders who reconstruct the world according to their needs, each tale portrays a patient with a condition such as Tourette's Syndrome, deafness, or amnesia."
  • "True stories about neurological patients, such as the surgeon with compulsive tics except when he's operating."@en
  • "An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of several neurological patients - including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating and a man who confronts the challenges of having his vision restored after more than forty years of blindness. The exploration of these individual lives is not one that can be made in a consulting room or office, and Sacks has taken off his white coat and deserted the hospital, by and large, to join his subjects in their own environments. He feels, he says, in part like a neuroanthropologist, but most of all like a physician, summoned here and there to make house calls, house calls at the far border of experience. In his lucid and compelling reconstructions of the mental acts we take for granted - the act of seeing, the transport of memory, empathy for others - Oliver Sacks provokes anew a sense of wonder at who we are."@en

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  • "Anecdotes"
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  • "An anthropologist on Mars"
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  • "An anthropologist on Mars 7 paradoxical tales"
  • "An anthropologist on Mars paradoxical tales"
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