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Advantages: very detailed and interesting, good for medical practitioners
Disadvantages: can be difficult to understand the medical jargon
...was recommended to me when I went on an open day to Bristol University. The psychology lecturer (as this is the course i want to do) gave us many books to look at but this is the only I remeber because I thought the title was hilarious!
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Review of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - Oliver Sacks
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The best book of short factual stories ever!
Advantages: Incredibly fascinating
Disadvantages: Bring a dictionary for the psychology/neurology terminology!
This is on 'The Man who mistook his wife for a hat'!
I may be bias because Oliver Sacks is my academic idol. I have followed much of his work but nothing compares to this book. As mentioned in another review it is filled with short entries about some o ...
abby458 31.03.2005 · Read full review
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Review of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - Oliver Sacks
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the man who mistook his wife for a hat
Advantages: good book, worth reading
Disadvantages: lots of big words, i had to get it from a library
...General Duckworth & Co. Ltd first published this book in 1985. Oliver Sacks, an author (‘Awakenings’ London 1973, 3rd. ed. 1983) and also a doctor specialising in neurology and this book is a compilation of some of his cases. It is split into four p ...
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Review of An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
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The surgeon with a rather large twitch...
Advantages: Fascinating, funny in places.
Disadvantages: Sometimes want to learn more about one story
You may or may not have heard of Oliver Sacks so before I tell you all about the book, let me tell you a little bit about the man himself. You may be familiar with the film "Awakenings" which starred Robin Williams. In it, a young neurologist treate ...
paule23 28.06.2001 · Read full review
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Review of An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
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Life on Mars? This is life on Earth.
Advantages: Brings humaniy to science and science to humanity.
Disadvantages: Does use some specialist terms.
With such a compelling title, I felt I had to pluck this from my friend's bookshelf and challenge it to keep me entertained on a long train journey over Easter. I finished it in a matter of hours as I really couldn't concentrate on anything else until I'd ...
Jezebel1978 29.03.2008 · Read full review
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