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An anthropologist on Mars : [electronic resource] seven paradoxical tales / Oliver Sacks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf, 1995.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 327 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0679437851
  • 9780679437857
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Anthropologist on Mars.DDC classification:
  • 616.8 20
LOC classification:
  • RC351 .S1948 1995
NLM classification:
  • 1995 K-857
  • WZ 305
Online resources:
Contents:
Case of the colorblind painter -- Last hippie -- Surgeon's life -- See and not see -- Landscape of his dreams -- Prodigies -- 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-315) and index.

Case of the colorblind painter -- Last hippie -- Surgeon's life -- See and not see -- Landscape of his dreams -- Prodigies -- 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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