An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver W. Sacks
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be autistic? Or blind? Or have Tourette's Syndrome? Dr. Sacks will show you what it's like in this book. The cases he chronicles are extraordinary. There is the painter who is struck color blind in a car accident. There is the story of the blind man who has his sight restored with grievous consequences. And what about the autistic child prodigy who can memorize complex architectural scenes and later draw them with amazing accuracy and beauty, yet he can't relate to his fellow human beings? Oliver Sacks has revived the almost obsolete art of the medical case study and he brings it to the layman in concise prose bent on enlightenment.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be autistic? Or blind? Or have Tourette's Syndrome? Dr. Sacks will show you what it's like in this book. The cases he chronicles are extraordinary. There is the painter who is struck color blind in a car accident. There is the story of the blind man who has his sight restored with grievous consequences. And what about the autistic child prodigy who can memorize complex architectural scenes and later draw them with amazing accuracy and beauty, yet he can't relate to his fellow human beings? Oliver Sacks has revived the almost obsolete art of the medical case study and he brings it to the layman in concise prose bent on enlightenment.