
- Publisher:
- PICADOR
- Year of publication:
- 2012
- ISBN:
- 978-0-330-52360-8
- Pages:
- 318
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS
SEVEN PARADOXICAL TALES
OLIVER SACKS
This collection of essays are mainly casebook studies. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. This book offers portraits of seven such travellers, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating.