An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

An Anthropologist on Mars

Oliver Sacks

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

318 pages | first published 1995

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This collection of essays are mainly casebook studies. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. This book offers portraits of seven such travellers, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics o...
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