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An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf, 1995.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 327 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0679437851
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.8 20
LOC classification:
  • RC351 .S1948 1995
NLM classification:
  • 1995 K-857
  • WZ 305
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 616.8 SAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) RC351 Available 34517000187305

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.

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