Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of nine other books, including Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film), and, most recently, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. He lives in New York City, where he is Professor of Clinical Neurology at Columbia University.
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"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist ...Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be' - "Sunday Times". 'Who is this book for? Who is it not for? It is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it' - "The Times". 'This is, in the best sense, a serious book. It is, indeed, a wonderful book, by which I mean not only that it is excellent (which it is) but also that it is full of wonder, wonders and wondering. He brings to these often unhappy people understanding, sympathy and respect. Sacks is always learning from his patients, marvelling at them, widening his own understanding and ours' - "Punch".
“……至于这个表面上看是一个刮胡刀,其实呢,它是一个吹风机。”当周星驰扮演的特工凌凌漆拿着电动刮胡刀吹着头发,对袁咏仪扮演的特务说出这句著名台词的时候,一个“古有关云长全神贯注下象棋刮骨疗毒,今有我凌凌漆聚精会神看A片挖骨取弹头”的特工情圣就诞生了!这说...
评分《错把妻子当帽子》、《火星上的人类学家》,这样的书名首先就引人注意,不过不要以为这是什么后现代小说,也不要认为这是玄幻、科幻,更不要认为这是标题党。这两本书是医学案例,别吓的马上跑了,虽是医学案例,但是其中却没有任何专业知识的晦涩,相反,本书作者奥利弗•...
评分《错把妻子当帽子》、《火星上的人类学家》,这样的书名首先就引人注意,不过不要以为这是什么后现代小说,也不要认为这是玄幻、科幻,更不要认为这是标题党。这两本书是医学案例,别吓的马上跑了,虽是医学案例,但是其中却没有任何专业知识的晦涩,相反,本书作者奥利弗•...
评分“你知道,我有一个芬兰籍的患者,因为大脑障碍,把身旁的妻子看成帽子,拼命地想往头上戴。还有一个为了治疗癫痫病而被切断胼胝体的英国人,当他用右手扣扣子的同时,左手始终准备解扣子;又或者看到去疗养院探望他的妻子,右手准备拥抱,左手却又放手,真是令人啼笑皆非。记...
评分“你知道,我有一个芬兰籍的患者,因为大脑障碍,把身旁的妻子看成帽子,拼命地想往头上戴。还有一个为了治疗癫痫病而被切断胼胝体的英国人,当他用右手扣扣子的同时,左手始终准备解扣子;又或者看到去疗养院探望他的妻子,右手准备拥抱,左手却又放手,真是令人啼笑皆非。记...
not the best of Oliver Sacks
评分果然对生物不感兴趣啊= = 大段描述解释完全看不下去直接跳过←.← 好在病例还是非常有趣的!...
评分The version I read is 1986 borrowed from Biomed Lib. Quite Intriguing cases. World of wonders never cease.
评分最爱读病史啥的啦。。
评分人类不仅对这个世界所知甚少,其实对自己都所知甚少。
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