Author: Oliver Sacks
Translator: Eun-seon Lee
Publisher: Bada Chulpansa
440 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
The works of neurologist Oliver Sacks have a special place in the swarm of
mind-brain studies. He has done as much as anyone to make nonspecialists aware
of how much diversity gets lumped under the heading of "the human mind."
The stories in An Anthropologist on Mars are medical case reports not unlike the
classic tales of Berton Roueche in The Medical Detectives. Sacks's stories are
of "differently brained" people, and they have the intrinsic human interest that
spurred his book Awakenings to be re-created as a Robin Williams movie.
The title story in Anthropologist is that of autistic Temple Grandin, whose own
book Thinking in Pictures gives her version of how she feels--as unlike other
humans as a cow or a Martian. The other minds Sacks describes are equally
remarkable: a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome, a painter who loses color
vision, a blind man given the ambiguous gift of sight, artists with memories
that overwhelm "real life," the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, and a man
with memory damage for whom it is always 1968.
Oliver Sacks is the Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould of his field; his books are
true classics of medical writing, of the breadth of human mentality, and of the
inner lives of the disabled. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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