An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Author: Oliver Sacks
Paradoxical portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette’s syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds new creative power in black & white; & others…..Read More
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