SearchLibrary
More ▼
BookshelvesRedeem code
bookmate game
7 days for free
en
Read in our apps:
iOS
·
Android
Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Notify me when the book’s added
Impression
Add to shelf
Already read
Report an error in the book
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
Search on Google
In his most extraordinary book, “one of the greatest clinical writers of the 20th century” (New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. It 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 recognise people and common objects; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr Sacks splendid and sympathetic retelling, deeply human.
This book is currently unavailable
328 printed pages

Related booksAll

Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Quotes

  • fdiahhas quoted4 years ago
    What is more important for us, at an elemental level, than the control, the owning and operation, of our own physical selves? And yet it is so automatic, so familiar, we never give it a thought.
      • Like
      • Comment
      • Report this
    • fdiahhas quoted4 years ago
      But have you ever seen a hysteria like this? Think phenomenologically – take what you see as a genuine phenomenon, in which her state-of-body and state-of-mind are not fictions, but a psychophysical whole. Could anything give such a picture of undermined body and mind?
        • Like
        • Comment
        • Report this
      • fdiahhas quoted4 years ago
        Our other senses – the five senses – are open and obvious; but this – our hidden sense – had to be discovered, as it was, by Sherrington, in the 1890s. He named it ‘proprioception’, to distinguish it from ‘exteroception’ and ‘interoception’, and, additionally, because of its indispensability for our sense of ourselves; for it is only by courtesy of proprioception, so to speak, that we feel our bodies as proper to us, as our ‘property’, as our own (Sherrington 1906, 1940).
          • Like
          • Comment
          • Report this

        On the bookshelves

        Don’t give a book. Give a library.Give a Bookmate subscription →
        fb2epub
        Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)