The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical TalesSimon and Schuster, 1998 - 243 Seiten In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: 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; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.” |
Inhalt
Introduction page | 3 |
The Lost Mariner page | 23 |
The Disembodied Lady page | 43 |
The Man Who Fell out of Bed page | 55 |
Hands page | 59 |
Phantoms page | 66 |
On the Level page | 71 |
Eyes Right page | 77 |
PART THREE TRANSPORTS | 127 |
Introduction page | 129 |
Reminiscence page | 132 |
A Passage to India page | 153 |
The Dog Beneath the Skin page | 156 |
Murder page | 161 |
The Visions of Hildegard page | 166 |
PART FOUR THE WORLD OF THE SIMPLE | 171 |
The Presidents Speech page | 80 |
PART TWO EXCESSES | 85 |
Introduction page | 87 |
Witty Ticcy Ray page | 92 |
Cupids Disease page | 102 |
A Matter of Identity page | 108 |
Yes FatherSister page | 116 |
The Possessed page | 120 |
Introduction page | 173 |
Rebecca page | 178 |
A Walking Grove page | 187 |
The Twins page | 195 |
The Autist Artist page | 214 |
Bibliography page | 234 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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