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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, bestselling author, and professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine'. He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Dr Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, before his death in August 2015.

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Title:

An Anthropologist on Mars (MP3)

Written by:

Oliver Sacks 

Read by:

Jonathan Davis; Oliver Sacks 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

11 hours 42 minutes 

MP3 size:

482 MB 

Published:

September 01 2019 

Available Date:

September 01 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781529011647 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Medicine; Psychology; Science & Technology 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Macmillan audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

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#1 bestselling author

Seven paradoxical tales of patients adapting to neurological conditions including autism, Asperger’s syndrome, amnesia and Tourette’s syndrome.

As with his previous bestseller, 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.

'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.'
The Independent on Sunday

'Writing simply and beautifully, Sacks uses individual case histories to reveal the infinite complexities of the human mind.'
The Daily Mail