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Sacks shows us the tragic side of neurological impairment, the loss of self and personal identity. How we treat the mentally handicap and how we may not even notice the gifts they have because all we see is the deficit.
Oliver sacks, the renowned neurologist, has an incredible knack for writing engaging and entertaining stories that reflect the complicated and technical science of how our brains work. On page 155 of the man who mistook his wife for a hat, sacks gives... Read More
Cons
The author uses a lot of medical terminology that i am unfamiliar with. The understanding of conditions neuroscience is familiar with today, like autism and parkinson's, is therefore quite dated.
The book is so heavily annotated and underlined and circled and arrowed that only a couple of chapters are readable. The book was dimly printed on flimsy paper, and notworth the money for that reason only. My advice to any potential reader is to buy a... Read More
Oliver sacks wrote in such a fussy, flowery style, and his sentence structure will kill you. It's so choppy that you forget where you started. Sacks' sentence structure is so convoluted as to make gleaning his meaning impossible.
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Such compassion respect and affection is an important accompaniment to physician skills in healing using what thomas p hackett ... Read More
Very enjoyable reading even for the nonmedical as well as medical
And then i recalled the case with the man that mistook his wife for a hart and started to read it
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Sadly the book does suffer from his use of nowverboten terms
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While they were common when the book was first released and for a time afterwards those words now are an uncomfortable distraction
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The author himself addresses this in a 2013 preface
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Despite his decision to leave the language as it is it was for me an avoidable distraction
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Bittersweet stories and memories are maybe a little personally biased
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But if you felt moved at all by the film awakenings give it a listen
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Book looks oldish and has written notes on some pages but still ok
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I have only read the first chapter so far
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