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Title: An Anthropologist On Mars : Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0-679-75697-3 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of his best books!
Comment: I've read several books by this author, including "The man who mistook his wife for a hat", "The island of the color blind" and "Seeing voices", but I have to say that this is the one I've enjoyed the most.
In keeping with the format of his hugely popular "The man who mistook his wife for a hat", Oliver Sacks presents his readers with several case stories that are both gripping and enlightening. As always, the author's greatest talent is being able to teach the general reader about the intricacies of the human mind, without reducing the particular patient to something other than human. The people behind each of these case studies are never reduced to being just freaks of nature, but are instead described with a great deal of respect.
I highly recommend all of Dr Sacks' books, but this is the best one to start with if you're new to his work. However, if lengthy footnotes are a pet peeve of yours, you may want to stay away. I, on the other hand, along with many other of his readers, really enjoy the many footnotes as they give his books more depth and points the reader in new interesting directions.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unforgettable people
Comment: Science, medicine and psychology aside, these people who are triumphing over the most inhuman odds are unforgettable and inspiring. Most would be unlovable to us if we knew them personally, but that's not important. All of us know people who've had many more advantages in life who have not lived up to their potentials. These folks more than make up for the underachievers. They're all somehow brilliant in their own rights.
Rating: 5
Summary: Oliver Sacks Sends a Postcard from Mars
Comment: Oliver Sacks' "An Anthropologist on Mars" is more than a collection of fascinating neurological case studies. Not only does Sacks offer a generous and holistic view of his subjects as complex individuals living in the real world, but he uses their disorders to raise provocative questions about what human Selfhood and intelligence mean. Is the color we see an objective external quality that is simply received by the brain, or is it constructed through an engagement between the brain and the environment? Are the memories that define our sense of who we are stored intact by the brain, awaiting retrieval, or must they be endlessly re-created? What are the potential relationships between memory and creativity, between art and disease, or between spirituality and disease? And perhaps most importantly, how can we separate the essence of individual identity from a lifelong neurological disorder, and at what cost is such a separation achieved? My only regret is that Sacks did not write some sort of postscript to bring together, and discuss more fully side-by-side, the many interesting question raised throughout this rich text.
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Title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat : And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0684853949 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Awakenings by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0375704051 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Migraine by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 037570406X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0375704043 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0375700730 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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