The mind's eye

by Sacks, Oliver

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Title Statements

Full title :The mind's eye / Oliver Sacks.

Summary

With compassion and insight, Dr. Oliver Sacks again illuminates the mysteries of the brain by introducing us to some remarkable characters, including Pat, who remains a vivacious communicator despite the stroke that deprives her of speech, and Howard, a novelist who loses the ability to read. Sacks investigates those who can see perfectly well but are unable to recognize faces, even those of their own children. He describes totally blind people who navigate by touch and smell, and others who, ironically, become hyper-visual. Finally, he recounts his own battle with an eye tumor and the strange ocular symptoms it caused. As he has done in classics like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings, Dr. Sacks shows us that medicine is both an art and a science, and that our ability to imagine what it is to see with another person's mind is what makes us truly human. --

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Vintage Canada
Place of Publication:Toronto
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 263 pages ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780307398109, 0307398102, 9780307473028, 0307473023
oclc:ocn697261697
LC Classification:RC423.S23
Dewey Decimal:152.14

Subjects

Anecdotes blindness Blindness -- Psychological aspects Cécité Cécité -- Aspect psychologique Cognition Disorders Communication Disorders Communicative disorders Creative nonfiction Essais fictionnels Face perception Nervous system -- Anecdotes Neurology Nonfiction perception Perception visuelle Popular works visual perception