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  • Sempre misteriosa la mente umana! Certe storie rasentano la comicita' per quanto assurde. Il dramma e' che sono fatti veri, racconti di persone realmente esistite e viventi. Una lezione di umilta' nei confronti della vita.

    

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  • Reports on extremely interesting neurological cases, written with the style of a novelist.

    (E` stato tradotto: L'uomo che scambio` sua moglie per un cappello) Resoconti di casi neurologici estremamente interessanti, scritti con lo stile di uno romanziere.

    

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  • An amazing set of tales. It shows the extraordinary ways the brain works, but most of all it shows the ways people cope with their bodies and lifes when faced with a brain that doesn't work anymore as supposed to.

    

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  • Non solo neurologia....

  • In italiano : L'uomo che scambiò sua moglie per un cappello. In apparenza un libro sui casi clinici del neurologo Sacks...in relatà un libro scritto con una grandissima sensibilità, estremamente interessate (consigliato a tutti!)

    

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  • honestly, i read this book because paul draper read it while he wrote songs in Six. it's so difficult for me, lots of neurology terms. however, it introduces a lot of amazing facts on neutrology and pathology. the brain is really a mysterious thing.

    

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  • Fascinating, eye-opening, entertaining, mind-boggling... beautifully written... a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction romp through some of neurology's most bizarre disorders...

    

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In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."

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