L'homme qui prenait sa femme pour un chapeau et autres récits cliniques
by:
Oliver Sacks (author)
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9782020146302 (2020146304)
Publish date: March 2nd 1992
Publisher: Seuil
Edition language: French
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Science,
Popular Science,
Biology,
Health,
Medical,
Psychology,
Medicine,
Neuroscience,
Short Stories
Really interesting presentation of different neurological conditions, if quite unstructured at times. Some of the language felt fairly dated, but overall I loved the positivism of the author and would definitely like to read more from him.
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This book is truly enthralling. I enjoyed it very much. It tells stories of people who we wouldn't imagine they even exist. But .. I have to admit that at some point I felt really bored!Nevertheless, it is definitely worth reading.
Too bad there's no bittersweet emoji. (And ironic that a website that dedicates itself to the discussion of books would want us to distill our ideas about a thing made of many words to a little yellow circle. Aren't we all here to avoid this?) Anyway. This is Oliver Sacks love letter to the worl...
I only took off a star because I'm not a doctor and don't know what all of the medical terms mean, which meant that a lot of the value of the book was gone for me. Nevermind.
And how a man could not tell object from person that inspired the title. Good one. Read it a long long time ago. But still important.
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