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 to recognize people and common objects; who are
stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities;
whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as