4 stars, but more of a 4- compared to the 4 stars I gave to Sacks' Musicophilia. The main ingredients are the same: respectfully and (in my opinion) nicely written case studies on the uncommon and the rare in neuroscience. I don't mind some fancy terms here and there and I don't mind the footnotes, ...
The first thought that crossed my mind after having read this book was to go to the nearest bookshop and buy "An Anthropologist on Mars". These two particular works written by the same author, namely Oliver Sacks were recommended to me by my friend, who at the time had bought the whole collection of...
The book was originally published in 1985, so it is a little bit out of date - neuroscience having moved on a bit in the intervening 25 years. Even knowing this before I started I still couldn't help feeling a little disappointed throughout the book in the lack of investigation in to the patients c...
This one, thank goodness, I was able to find in the bookstore. Oliver Sacks seems to be a popular one, as I keep seeing his books all over the place as well as being mentioned in other books I am reading!). I have always enjoyed reading medical case studies, and learning about the peculiarities of t...
Fascinating subject matter and an interesting read, but Oliver Sacks is very unscientific, and it begins to bother me more and more the more of his stuff I read. He has all sorts of fairy tale pat explanations for things that he really doesn't know at all. I think he is insufficiently wary about f...
“I think it is effective to constrict your anus 100 times, dent your navel 100 times in succession everyday. You can do so at a boring meeting or in a subway without being noticed for you to do so. I have known 70 year old man who has practiced it for 20 years. As a result, he has good complexion an...
When I was little my father tried to make sure that we experienced as much as possible of people and things. Most mysteriously we had Chinese people to tea - in the mid 1960s that was really quite unusual. I especially recall being taken to a place where autistic children lived...though when I asked...
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