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100	1		_aSacks, Oliver _d1933-2015.
245	1	3	_aAn Anthropologist on Mars : _bSeven Paradoxical Tales / _cOliver Sacks.
260			_aToronto, ON : _bVintage Canada, _c1996.
300			_a327 p. : _bill. (some col.) ; _c20 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aPreface -- The Case of the Colorblind Painter -- The Last Hippie -- A Surgeon's Life -- To See and Not See -- The Landscape of His Dreams -- Prodigies -- An Anthropologist on Mars
505			_aSelected Bibliography
505			_aReferences
505			_aIndex
520			_a"Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of 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 a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well-honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller and manages to produce a book at once accessible and challenging. The capacity to observe the patient as a different form of human being, instead of as just an 'interesting case', is a true insight into what Medicine should be; furthermore, as the author insistently teaches, neurological diseases differ from other ailments in that they become a true portion of the persona, and, in a sense, they belong to the patient, whereas most people consider disease to be something that 'happens' to them, an outside influence not to be confused with the true Self. It is a truly accessible and moving book, and teaches us all something about the diversity and depths of the human kind." (Publisher's Website)
650		0	_aNeurology _vAnecdotes.
856	4	2	_uhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/159601/an-anthropologist-on-mars-by-oliver-sacks-md/9780394281513 _zPublisher's Website.
856	4	2	_uhttps://ocul-uo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/1lm0b9c/alma991030633989705161 _zCheck the UO Library catalog.
856	4	2	_uhttps://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/show/132859026 _zCheck the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) catalog.
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