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222:, but here the essays are significantly longer and Sacks has more of an opportunity to discuss each subject with more depth and to explore historical case studies of patients with similar symptoms. In addition, Sacks studies his patients outside the hospital, often traveling considerable distances to interact with his subjects in their own environments. Sacks concludes that "defects, disorders, diseases... can play a paradoxical role, by bringing out latent powers, developments, evolutions, forms of life that might never be seen, or even be imaginable, in their absence" (p. 280:
from early childhood, but was able to recover some of his sight after surgery. This is one of an extremely small number of cases where an individual regained sight lost at such an early age, and as with many of the other cases, the patient found the experience to be deeply
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consisting of seven medical case histories of individuals with neurological conditions such as
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follows up on many of the themes Sacks explored in his 1985 book,
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Book of the Times; Finding the Advantages in Some Mind Disorders
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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is based on the fourth essay, "To See and Not to See". The
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Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
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or the inability to perceive color due to brain damage.
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Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
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Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
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Index


Oliver Sacks
Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover
Paperback
ISBN
0-679-43785-1
OCLC
30810706
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Seeing Voices
The Island of the Colorblind
neurologist
Oliver Sacks
autism
Tourette syndrome
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
cerebral achromatopsia
brain tumor
anterograde amnesia
surgeon
pilot
Tourette syndrome
tics
Shirl Jennings
blind
Pontito
Tuscany
Stephen Wiltshire

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