Oliver Sacks 3 Books Collection Set - Neurology & Medical Non Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Hallucinations. Awakenings. Condition: Brand New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781529063714. Publisher: Picador. Age Range: Adult / 18+. Overview. Discover the remarkable case studies that made Oliver Sacks one of the most celebrated science writers of his generation. This three-book paperback collection brings together his most acclaimed works of clinical storytelling: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Hallucinations, and Awakenings. Written with compassion, curiosity and literary flair, each book explores the strange and often profoundly moving territory where neurology meets the human condition, offering readers a rare window into minds working in extraordinary, unexpected ways.. About the Books. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat presents a series of case studies of patients who have lost memories, cannot recognise faces or objects, or experience their own limbs as alien intrusions, yet are often gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talent. Sacks tells each story with warmth and scientific precision, turning clinical detail into deeply human portraiture of people struggling against extraordinary adversity.. Hallucinations examines a phenomenon far more common, and far less sinister, than most people assume. Sacks shows that hallucinations are frequently linked to sensory deprivation, illness, injury, intoxication, or extreme grief rather than madness, and can even trigger profound spiritual or out-of-body experiences. Drawing on decades of clinical encounters and cultural history, he reveals how humans have sought these altered states for millennia.. Awakenings, later adapted into an acclaimed feature film, tells the extraordinary true story of twenty patients left catatonic for decades by the encephalitis lethargica epidemic that followed the First World War. When Sacks treated them with the then-experimental drug L-DOPA, many patients "awakened" after forty years of stillness and silenc