Approaching the neurological cases in a manner that today would be called holistic, Oliver Sacks is an example to all those who are to deal professionally with the suffering. Before clinical cases, bizarre neuropsychological patients Sacks are men and women who, through illness, reflect a personal and original way of seeing the world, individuals are in their entirety. Sacks, referring to the tradition of Hippocrates and Lurjia, which advocates the reintroduction of the clinical history in medicine.
The book is divided into four sections: the first part is a collection of stories whose patients are suffering from a syndrome linked to loss of brain function. In this section you will find, according to the author, the most important and interesting case report which gives its name to this book (the man who mistook His Wife for a Hat). The second section is concerned with cases where there is a surplus, an excess in symptoms, are described in the third and last is reminiscent of stories dedicated to the simple. Happy reading ...
The book is divided into four sections: the first part is a collection of stories whose patients are suffering from a syndrome linked to loss of brain function. In this section you will find, according to the author, the most important and interesting case report which gives its name to this book (the man who mistook His Wife for a Hat). The second section is concerned with cases where there is a surplus, an excess in symptoms, are described in the third and last is reminiscent of stories dedicated to the simple. Happy reading ...
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