The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

Oliver Sacks

256 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science reflective slow-paced

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In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.  Oliver Sacks's ...

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