Dec 20, 2009

An Anthropologist on Mars | An Anthropologist on Mars

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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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An Anthropologist on Mars | An Anthropologist on Mars

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