The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" [The New York Times] recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able…