An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales / Oliver Sacks.

Author
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Knopf, 1995.
Description
xix, 327 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

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    Summary note
    The author profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-315) and index.
    Contents
    • The case of the colorblind painter
    • The last hippie
    • A surgeon's life
    • To see and not see
    • The landscape of his dreams
    • Prodigies
    • An anthropologist on Mars.
    ISBN
    • 0679437851
    • 9780679437857
    • 9780679756972
    • 0679756973
    LCCN
    94026733
    OCLC
    30810706
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