The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales / Oliver Sacks

By:

SACKS, Oliver

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : A Touchstone Book, c1998.Description: x, 243p. : ill. ; 21cmISBN:

9780684853949

Subject(s):

Operas -- Vocal scores with piano

DDC classification:

22nd ed. 808.02 SAC

Summary: Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	CUoM Library General Stacks	Literature/Kiswahili Fasihi	808.02 SAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	00006799

Includes index

Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

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