El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, an extraordinary revelation, immediately became a classic and established Oliver Sacks as "one of the great clinical writers of the century" (The New York Times), as later attested by An Anthropologist on Mars and other remarkable works. In this book, Oliver Sacks recounts twenty medical histories of patients lost in the strange and seemingly incurable world of neurological disorders. These are cases of individuals afflicted by unprecedented perceptual aberrations who have lost their memory, and with it, most of their past; who are unable to recognize their relatives or everyday objects; who have been dismissed as mentally retarded and yet possess unusual artistic or scientific gifts. However strange these cases may seem, Dr. Sacks relates them with human passion and great literary talent. These studies allow us to access the universe of those with nervous disorders and understand their struggle against adversity. As a great doctor, Oliver Sacks never loses sight of the ultimate goal of medicine: the human subject who suffers and struggles.