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Summary
Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a me... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Darwin and the meaning of flowers
- Speed
- Sentience: the mental lives of plants and worms
- The other road: Freud s neurologist
- The fallibility of memory
- Mishearings
- The creative self
- A general feeling of disorder
- The river of consciousness
- Scotoma: forgetting and neglect in science.