An Anthropologist on Mars
A Medicine, Writing, Biology book. Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I...
The works of neurologist Oliver Sacks have a special place in the swarm of mind-brain studies. He has done as much as anyone to make nonspecialists aware of how much diversity gets lumped under the heading of "the human mind." The stories in An Anthropologist on Mars are medical case reports not unlike the classic tales of Berton Roueché in The Medical Detectives. Sacks's stories are...
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- ISBN: 9780394281513 / 394281519
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Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy) Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales // Thus higher-order memorization is a multistage process, involving the transfer of perceptions, or perceptual syntheses, from short-term to long-term memory. It is just such a transfer that fails to occur in people with temporal lobe damage. Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales // In the newly sighted, learning to see demands a radical change in neurological functioning and, with it, a radical change in psychological functioning, in self, in identity. The change may be experienced in literally life-and-death terms. Valvo quotes a patient of his as saying, 'One must die as a sighted person to be bom again as a blind person,' and the opposite is equally true: one must die as a blind person to be born again as a seeing person. Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales //
It's interesting how political correctness has changed in just 20 years. Oliver seems like he was a professional and sweet man, but every once and a while would use a term or label that would now be considered awkward and incorrect. Otherwise, this book was incredible and I am definitely going to read his other works. This is not the sort of thing I would normally have chosen for myself, but I enjoyed it far more than I expected to. I expected it to be about the triumph of the human spirit over the obstacles of neurological disorders, but it isn't. There's some of that in here, but it is much more of a fascinating look at the way we think of disorders... While reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, I felt as if Sacks wasn't spending enough time with each of his subjects; in this book I felt like he was spending too much time with each one. The details he gave of their lives were often not the details I wanted to know, and I found myself skimming through some of this. However,...
