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An Anthropologist On Mars Seven Paradoxical Tales

Paperback • 1995 • English

An Anthropologist On Mars Seven Paradoxical Tales

By Oliver Sacks

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About the book

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS • From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality. Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless ...Show more

Anthropology
Alzheimer’s and dementia
Psychiatry

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ISBN

9780679756972

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

1995

Language

English

Original title

An Anthropologist On Mars Seven Paradoxical Tales

Format

Paperback

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