![]() ![]() 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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