The mind's eye / Oliver Sacks.
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Date:
- 2010
- Books
About this work
Description
Includes stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and faculties: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and the sense of sight. This book is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation, and it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to perceive through another person's eyes, or another person's mind.
Publication/Creation
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Physical description
xii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contributors
Notes
"A Borzoi book" -- T.p. verso.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-252) and index.
Contents
Sight reading -- Recalled to life -- A man of letters -- Face-blind -- Stereo Sue -- Persistence of vision: a journal -- The mind's eye.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineQ.FOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780307272089
- 0307272087