An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-20151995
Book
This collection of essays are mainly casebook studies. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. This book offers portraits of seven such travellers, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating.
Main title:
An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales / Oliver Sacks.
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Imprint:
London : Picador, 1995.
Collation:
xvi, 319 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.Originally published: New York, Knopf, 1995.
ISBN:
9780330337175
Dewey class:
612.8
Language:
English
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BRN:
520361