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An Anthropologist on Mars
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
As with his previous best seller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world and how we relate to those around us.
Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre - patients for whom disorientation and alienation but also adaptation are inescapable facts of life.
Critic reviews
"An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories." (Independent on Sunday)
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- Anonymous User
- 25-10-22
A wonderfully positive spin on Psychopathology
Sacks takes an idiographic and holistic approach to these case studies, and provides the listener with a rich, qualitative analysis of the patient's lives, focusing on how they've adapted in light of their condition, and use it to better themselves.
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- Chris
- 02-06-19
The genius of Oliver Sacks
Case series punctuated by intimate, delicate philosophy by the genius of Dr Sacks. Well narrated but Mr Davis' native US American and fake Italian accents definitely break the enchantment.
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