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An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales

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.

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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."@en
  • "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."
  • "Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits 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, and manages to produce a book at once accessible and challenging. The capacity to observe the patient as a different form of human being, instead of as just an 'interesting case', is a true insight into what Medicine should be; furthermore, as the author insistently teaches, neurological diseases differ from other ailments in that they become a true portion of the persona, and, in a sense, they belong to the patient, whereas most people consider disease to be something that 'happens' to them, an outside influence not to be confused with the true Self. It is a truly accessible and moving book, and teaches us all something about the diversity and depths of the human kind. From the Trade Paperback edition."
  • "Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. 'An anthropologist on Mars' offers portraits of seven such travellers--including a British Columbia surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of colour 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 behaviour."

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  • "Fallstudiensammlung"
  • "Anecdotes"
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  • "Casestudies (vorm)"
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  • "Case studies"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Mars'ta bir antropolog"@tr
  • "An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales"@en
  • "An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales"
  • "An anthropologist on Mars"
  • "An anthropologist on Mars seven paradoxical tales"
  • "An anthropologist on Mars seven paradoxical tales"@en
  • "An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxal tales"
  • "An anthropologist on Mars : Seven paradoxical tales"
  • "Antropologi Marsissa : seitsemän paradoksaalista tarinaa"@fi
  • "Mars'ta bir antropolog : an anthropologist on Mars"@tr
  • "Um antropologo em Marte : sete historias paradoxais"@pt
  • "An anthropologist on Mars : 7 paradoxical tales"@en
  • "Mars'ta bir antropolog = An anthropologist on Mars"@en
  • "Um antropólogo em Marte sete histórias paradoxais"@pt
  • "An Anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales"

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