The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales

233 pages

English language

Published 1985 by Summit Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-671-55471-2
OCLC Number:: 12313889

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(2 reviews)

Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected.

44 editions

El Pamplina reviewed El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero by Oliver Sacks

Amor por sus pacientes

5 stars

El doctor Sacks dedicó su vida a estudiar a personas con graves problemas neurológicos. Se podría pensar que una actividad así haría que viera a sus pacientes como especímenes, objetos de estudio a diseccionar. Nada más lejos de la realidad. Este libro está lleno de amor, amistad y empatía hacia todos sus pacientes. Los retrata describiendo sus patologías con tal delicadeza y calor humano, que llegamos a comprender (hasta el punto donde eso es posible) su visión del mundo y vivencias como si fueran nuestras. Un conjunto de relatos maravilloso; el testamento de un científico excepcional.

fastfinge reviewed The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks

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1 star

This book is so dated as to be useless to the casual reader. While the cases it presents may still be interesting for those in the profession to analyze, people reading from a less professional perspective will find nothing of any worth. This book is so full of horrifying 1970's style racism (comparing "savages" to children and "retards" and "simpletons", calling cases retardeds, simpletons, idiots, and worse, etc) that while some of the information may still be valid today, I cannot take a single word of it seriously. If the author took the time to read and write a forward for the audio edition, why on earth didn't he take the time to go through the text, and at least update some of the worst blunders? Yes, I realize time and language have changed. But that's no reason to perpetuate historical mistakes in what is sold as a popular psych …

This book is so dated as to be useless to the casual reader. While the cases it presents may still be interesting for those in the profession to analyze, people reading from a less professional perspective will find nothing of any worth. This book is so full of horrifying 1970's style racism (comparing "savages" to children and "retards" and "simpletons", calling cases retardeds, simpletons, idiots, and worse, etc) that while some of the information may still be valid today, I cannot take a single word of it seriously. If the author took the time to read and write a forward for the audio edition, why on earth didn't he take the time to go through the text, and at least update some of the worst blunders? Yes, I realize time and language have changed. But that's no reason to perpetuate historical mistakes in what is sold as a popular psych book, especially not when the author is alive and well and could update the text.

Subjects

Neurology -- Anecdotes.