An Anthropologist on Mars (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Oliver Sacks
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Essays
- Principal Characters: Oliver Sacks, Jonathan I., Greg F., Carl Bennett, Virgil, Franco Magnani, Stephen Wiltshire, Temple Grandin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Psychology or psychologists, Science or scientists, Mental illness, Medicine, Human behavior, Mind and body, Brain, Nerves
Oliver Sacks, who has lived in the United States for more than half his life and who teaches clinical neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, is also the author of several collections of case studies so empathically presented and coherently written that they have appeared in such venues as The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. To be sure, these case studies—in reality, essays—contain a good bit of scientific analysis: for example, “The Case of the Colorblind Painter,” the first essay in An Anthropologist on...
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