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Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: September 14, 2021
Print length: 291 pages

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS • In his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of Awakenings and "poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain extraordinary new skills.

"Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness."
—The Guardian

Featuring a new preface, Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

In Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."

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Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: September 14, 2021
Print length: 291 pages

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS • In his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of Awakenings and "poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain extraordinary new skills.

"Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness."
—The Guardian

Featuring a new preface, Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

In Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."

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Sep 8, 2026 12:35 AM
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bowlofcloudsSep 8, 2026 12:35 AM
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Incredible book. Should be required reading.
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Quote from bowlofclouds View quoted comment :
Incredible book. Should be required reading.
Couldn't agree more. Absolutely fascinating case studies involving the brain. Highly recommend.
Sep 8, 2026 4:49 PM
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grendel20Sep 8, 2026 4:49 PM
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Prefer his autobiography more than anything else ("on the move"). Lately, he's been under attack, some saying that he falsified data.
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ricketstarSep 9, 2026 4:10 PM
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Excellent book! Also recommend Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by Sandra Blakeslee and V. S. Ramachandran
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Quote from grendel20 View quoted comment :
Prefer his autobiography more than anything else ("on the move"). Lately, he's been under attack, some saying that he falsified data.
In fairness, the accusations he made up large portions of his stories are based on his own notes.

Doesn't change things for me, might for others. I also loved his autobiography.

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