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An Anthropologist on Mars:
Seven Paradoxical Tales

by Oliver W. Sacks

ISBN 0679437851 / 9780679437857 / 0-679-43785-1
Publisher Random House Inc
Language English
Edition Hardcover
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Detailed and fascinating portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior.

"Among doctors who write with acuity and grace, Sacks ( The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) takes a higher place with each successive book.... enlarges our view of the nature of human experience." --Publisher's Weekly

"... Dr. Sacks's best book to date." --The New York Time Book Review [via]