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- Sales Rank: #221572 in Books
- Published on: 2011-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .40 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Still relevant and appealing, more than thirty years later.
By exurbanite
On a recent trip to London I picked up a copy of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat before boarding a plane at Heathrow Airport. It is a 2015 paperback just published by Picador Classic (a division of Macmillan) with an introduction by Will Self and an Afterword by Oliver Sacks. The collection of essays it contains was first published in the 1980’s, though some within it were published as early as 1970.
Although I had read some of the contents years ago, I recalled few specifics and very much enjoyed reading it again. Sacks, like many successful popularizers, has not always been highly regarded by the bulk of his fellow neurologists, possibly out of a degree of jealously or resentment. The more prominent reason, however, undoubtedly lies in the fact that he chose a clinical path outside of the mainstream of his profession.
The mainstream has been, and to a large extent continues to be, strictly materialistic and reductionist in approach. It restricts itself to palpable, objective facts and data and eschews unmeasurable abstractions such as consciousness or will. Sacks, on the other hand, concentrated on the problems of individuals who, through illness or accident had suffered brain damage. He followed them, wrote case histories, and through these painted intriguing and colorful verbal portraits. His techniques, as he himself writes, “could not be reduced to surveys or numbers; they required individual, highly personal narratives”.
The fascination and appeal of this collection lies in the uniqueness of the patients Sacks studied and described. His attitude towards them is uniformly kindly and paternalistic. He does not shy away from using words such as “soul” or “spirit” that are shunned by most in his profession. His medical vocabulary frequently includes words requiring the average lay reader to reach for the dictionary.
Also, but quite happily as far as this reader is concerned, the collection includes nomenclature that has come to be regarded as antique or politically incorrect: idiot-savant, moron, simpleton, and the like. Contemporary medicine replaces these words by colorless euphemisms or forgettable jargon. There are people out there somewhere who could be offended, or so the thinking goes. Possibly true. But the rest of us, and most certainly the English language, are the losers.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Compelling stories
By Doug Erlandson
"The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat," is perhaps Oliver Sack's best known book. It details many fascinating stories, including the one that gives the book its title. The stories include ones of people who have lost certain abilities, such as the ability to recognize anything on the left half of their body as being theirs, so that they treat their left hand as a foreign object, and about the twins with IQ's around sixty who possess an amazing ability to recognize prime numbers and calculate consecutive primes of at least six digits in length.
One would miss the overall point of Sack's book if one simply saw them as interesting stories. More importantly, they are a testimony to the complexity and intricacy of the human brain. Why, for example, can a stroke or a brain lesion cause one person to lose the ability to understand the meaning of nouns (while leaving the ability to recognize verbs unscathed) and in another person the reverse is true? Why do certain autistic savants have the ability to calculate the day of the week on which any date in history or in the future will fall? A person reading this book will almost certainly come away with a renewed sense of the complexity of the brain.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great book!
By case
Wonderful book! You will enjoy this especially if you are interested in neuroscience or cognitive psychology.
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