The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
By: Oliver Sacks
Synopsis
Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat 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.
In 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.”
— from Penguin Random House
In 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.”
— from Penguin Random House
Contributor's Note
What happens when we can’t trust our memories and senses? What happens to our memories and our sense of being when we face neurological conditions? These case histories will make you appreciate the fragility of the human mind.
— Wan Ni, SD
— Wan Ni, SD