Volume 33, Number 4 · March 13, 1986
The Sixth Sense
By Charles Rycroft
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Summit, 233 pp., $15.95
Dr. Oliver Sacks is a British-trained neurologist who now practices in New York, where he is professor of clinical neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. With his earlier book, Awakenings (1973), which described the remarkable effect of a new drug, LDopa, on cases of postencephalitic parkinsonism, Dr. Sacks established himself as a writer who could describe physical illnesses clearly to lay readers, who could both imagine and communicate what it is like to suffer neurological diseases that undermine the bodily ground of our being, and who felt no inhibitions about reporting his own amazement, fascination, compassion, and optimism when confronted by patients with rare, extraordinary, and tragic disorders.
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