An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales /
Sacks, Oliver W.
An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales / - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 1995. - xix, 327 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-315) and index.
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.
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.
0679437851
94026733
9517649 DNLM
Neurology--Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
Neurology.
RC351 / .S1948 1995
616.8
1995 K-857 WZ 305 / S121a 1995
An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales / - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 1995. - xix, 327 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-315) and index.
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.
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.
0679437851
94026733
9517649 DNLM
Neurology--Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
Neurology.
RC351 / .S1948 1995
616.8
1995 K-857 WZ 305 / S121a 1995