Name: Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (en Inglés)
Price: 13.05 EUR
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Author: Oliver Sacks
ISBN: 9780330523608

portada Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Picador Usa

Autor

Oliver Sacks

Categoría

no-clasificables

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0330523600

ISBN13

9780330523608

N° edición

Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (en Inglés)

Oliver Sacks (Autor) · Picador Usa · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (en Inglés)"

'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories' Independent on Sunday As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us. Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre; patients for whom disorientation and alienation but also adaptation are inescapable facts of life. 'Sacks' great gift is his capacity to place himself in the position of his subjects, to see the world the way they see it and to empathize with their condition with grea