The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

El médico británico revolucionó la divulgación científica con esta recopilación de casos clínicos de extrañas disfunciones neurológicas. El talento literario de su autor, junto a su profunda humanidad y capacidad de reflexión, la convierten en una lectura fascinante.

by Oliver Sacks / by JULIAN EARWAKER

CLASSIC BOOKS Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist and a best-selling writer of non-fiction. Born in London in 1933, he spent most of his career in the US, where he treated a group of people who had been catatonic since the 1920s after contracting encephalitis lethargica or ‘sleeping sickness’. Sacks published his experiences in the book Awakenings (1973), which became a film starring1 Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. In 1985, Sacks published an even more acclaimed2 work: The Man Who Mistook3 His Wife for a Hat relates a series of fascinating neurological case studies4 of patients with remarkable poignance5 and humanity. HUMANITY On his journey into the terra incognita of the human brain, Sacks brings together science, history, medical knowledge and the arts. He focuses on the lives of…

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