Die Insel der Farbenblinden
by:
Oliver Sacks (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9783499605604 (3499605600)
Publish date: October 1st 1998
Publisher: Rowohlt
Pages no: 350
Edition language: Deutsch
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Writing,
Essays,
Science,
Biology,
Health,
Medical,
Psychology,
Medicine,
Neuroscience,
Brain
I KNEW, KNEW that Oliver Sacks wouldn't give me informative details on the epidemiology of islands. His chatty, superficial, and self-absorbed style made me drop both his Hat and Awakenings books and give it 4 stars anyway, out of what, charity? But this one I bought new, with high hopes anyway, and...
There is a type of complete colorblindness, achromatopsia, where people do not have functional cones in their eyes and are almost blind in sunlight because of the sensitivity of the rods. Achromatopsia, unlike red-green colorblindness, is very rare. The island of Fuur and the island of Pingelap both...
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