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An Anthropologist on Mars

A collection of fascinating case studies on the human mind

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An Anthropologist on Mars

Written by: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
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As with his previous best seller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world and how we relate to those around us.

Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre - patients for whom disorientation and alienation but also adaptation are inescapable facts of life.

©2018 Oliver Sacks (P)2011 Audible, Inc Neuroscience & Neuropsychology Physical Illness & Disease Psychology Psychology & Mental Health

Critic Reviews

"An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories." (Independent on Sunday)
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Exceptional and deep insight into the workings of the mind and how it is so often misunderstood and misinterpreted.

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