{"product_id":"the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-isbn-9781101908310","title":"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS \u003ci\u003e• \u003c\/i\u003eA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Dr. Sacks's most extraordinary book, in which the \"poet laureate of medicine” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) recounts fascinating case histories of patients with neurological disorders.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn influential landmark in the tradition of writing about the body and the brain,\u003ci\u003e The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: 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; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.\"Insightful, compassionate, moving . . . the lucidity and power of a gifted writer.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"A provocative introduction to the human mind.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dr. Sacks's best book. . . . One sees a wise, compassionate and very literate mind at work in these 20 stories, nearly all remarkable, and many the kind that restore one's faith in humanity.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dr. Sacks's most absorbing book. . . . His tales are so compelling that many of them serve as eerie metaphors not only for the condition of modern medicine but of modern man\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This book is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction . . . Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Sacks explores neurological disorders with a novelist's skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Sensitive yet lively. . . . This book ranks with the very best of its genre. It will inform and entertain anyone, especially those who find medicine an intriguing and mysterious art.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOLIVER SACKS (1933–2015) was born in London and educated at Oxford University and UCLA. Dr. Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. He received honors from, among others, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Introducer: \u003c\/b\u003eATUL GAWANDE,\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ea noted surgeon, writer, and researcher, is a professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and at Harvard Medical School. 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