The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Kim’s request to change the title of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Sunday, September 6 2009.

Kim changed the title of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Sunday, September 6 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Friday, July 31 2009.

• In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: 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; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Oliver Sacks:

Peiyu W edited the quotations of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a quotation: “Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit”
• Added a quotation: “She had come apart, horribly, in formal testing, but now she was mysteriously `together' and composed”

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added a contributor: Oliver Sacks: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Friday, July 17 2009.

• Neurology's favourite word is 'deficit', denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties).