The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Oliver Sacks tells the tales of people stuck in the strange and seemingly unavoidable realm of neurological illness in his most remarkable book. These are case studies of persons who have lost most or all of their memories, who can no longer recognize familiar faces or things, whose limbs have turned foreign, and who suffer from certain conditions yet nonetheless possess remarkable creative or mathematical abilities. Each story, as told by the brilliant and compassionate Dr. Sacks, is a distinct and profoundly personal examination of life against unbelievable hardship.