The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales / Oliver Sacks. (Text)

Reprint. Originally published: 1985.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-286) and index.

part 1. Losses: Introduction ; The man who mistook his wife for a hat ; Lost mariner ; Disembodied lady ; The man who fell out of bed ; Hands ; Phantoms ; On the level ; Eyes right! ; The President's speech -- part 2. Excesses. Introduction ; Witty ticcy Ray ; Cupid's disease ; A matter of identity ; Yes, father-sister ; The possessed -- part 3. Transports. Introduction ; Reminiscence ; Incontinent nostalgia ; A passage to India ; The dog beneath the skin ; Murder ; The visions of Hildegard -- part 4. The world of the simple. Rebecca ; A walking grove ; The twins ; The autist artist.

"Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr. Sacks' splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."-- Page 4 of cover.