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Pros

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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    great, medical, many and written.
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  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 5,131 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 7 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Sadly the book does suffer from his use of nowverboten terms


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    While they were common when the book was first released and for a time afterwards those words now are an uncomfortable distraction


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The author himself addresses this in a 2013 preface


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Despite his decision to leave the language as it is it was for me an avoidable distraction


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Bittersweet stories and memories are maybe a little personally biased


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    But if you felt moved at all by the film awakenings give it a listen


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Book looks oldish and has written notes on some pages but still ok


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I have only read the first chapter so far

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