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An Anthropologist on Mars
by Oliver Sacks
Seven case histories: a colorblind painter, a surgeon with Tourette's, Temple Grandin. Sacks on how neurological difference becomes a different way of being. Humane and curious.
Read it if…
you loved The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
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Skip it if…
you want a how-to.
Try instead: The Mind's Eye →
Three things you will actually use
- Deficit can become identity.
- Adaptation is creative.
- See the person, not the condition.
Do this first
Read the Temple Grandin chapter.
Our verdict
Seven neurological lives.
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