The river of consciousness

Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a me...

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Main Author: Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
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300 |a x, 237 pages ;  |c 22 cm 
500 |a "A Borzoi book." 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index. 
505 0 |a Darwin and the meaning of flowers -- Speed -- Sentience: the mental lives of plants and worms -- The other road: Freud s neurologist -- The fallibility of memory -- Mishearings -- The creative self -- A general feeling of disorder -- The river of consciousness -- Scotoma: forgetting and neglect in science. 
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