Seeing Voices is a journey: a journey first into the history of deaf people, the (often outrageous) ways in which they were seen and treated in the past, and the new understanding that started to dawn in the eighteenth century and a journey into the present situation of the deaf-a situation which, all too often, is still one of misunderstanding and mistreatment. Sacks takes us into the world of the deaf, a world he explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers everywhere.
the kind that restore(s) one's faith in humanity." Now, with Seeing Voices, Dr. Sacks undertook a fascinating journey into the world of the neurologically impaired, an exploration that Noel Perrin in the Chicago Sun-Times called "wise, compassionate, and very literate. In his last book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Dr. Oliver Sacks has been described (by The New York Times Book Review) as "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century," and his books, including the medical classics Migraine and Awakenings, have been widely praised by critics from W.
In his lucid and compelling reconstructions of the mental acts we take for granted - the act of seeing, the transport of memory, the notion of color - Oliver Sacks provokes anew a sense of wonder at who we are."-BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. He feels, he says, in part like a neuroanthropologist, but most of all like a physician, called here and there to make house calls, house calls at the far border of experience." "Along the way, he shows us a new perspective on the way our brains construct our individual worlds. The exploration of these individual lives is not one that can be made in a consulting room or office, and Sacks has taken off his white coat and deserted the hospital, by and large, to join his subjects in their own environments. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers - including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior." "These are paradoxical tales, for neurological disease can conduct one to other modes of being that - however abnormal they may be to our way of thinking - may develop virtues and beauties of their own. "Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. Borrowing Privileges and Accessing Local LibrariesĮmail Help: Schedule Research Appointment.Instagram and Digital Initiatives Instagram.RIC Special Collections & College Archives.
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