Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xix, 327 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-315) and index. |
Contents |
The case of the colorblind painter -- The last hippie -- A surgeon's life -- To see and not see -- The landscape of his dreams -- Prodigies -- An anthropologist on Mars. |
Summary |
The author profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white. |
Subject |
Neurology -- Anecdotes.
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Anecdotes as Topic.
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Neurology.
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ISBN |
0679437851 |
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