| Title : | The man who mistook his wife for a hat | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Oliver Sacks, Author | | Publisher: | London : Pan Books | | Publication Date: | 1986 | | Pagination: | 233 p. | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-330-29491-1 | | Class number: | 616.8 | | Abstract: | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients | | Contents note: | The book comprises twenty-four essays split into four sections (Losses, Excesses, Transports, and The World of the Simple), each dealing with a particular aspect of brain function. The first two sections discuss deficits and excesses (with particular emphasis on the right hemisphere of the brain), while the third and fourth sections describe phenomenological manifestations with reference to spontaneous reminiscences, altered perceptions, and extraordinary qualities of mind found in mentally handicapped people. |
The man who mistook his wife for a hat [printed text] / Oliver Sacks, Author . - London : Pan Books, 1986 . - 233 p. ISBN : 978-0-330-29491-1 | Class number: | 616.8 | | Abstract: | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients | | Contents note: | The book comprises twenty-four essays split into four sections (Losses, Excesses, Transports, and The World of the Simple), each dealing with a particular aspect of brain function. The first two sections discuss deficits and excesses (with particular emphasis on the right hemisphere of the brain), while the third and fourth sections describe phenomenological manifestations with reference to spontaneous reminiscences, altered perceptions, and extraordinary qualities of mind found in mentally handicapped people. |
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