A review by bobamcfungus
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Each of the stories taught me something different, but all of them centered on the ways that the brain can overcome damage or disorder, sometimes resulting in a new human experience unable to be comprehended by the neurotypical brain. Sacks does a great job in sharing his deep curiousity in the brain and neuroscience without completely disconnecting from the fact that the patient is a person, with a full life and multifaceted personality. I think the quote included at the beginning of the text explains this well, “Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has”.