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Oliver SacksAn Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks is a practicing physician and the author of ten other books, including Musicophilia, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film). He lives in New York City, where he is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and the first Columbia University Artist.
www.oliversacks.com
FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 1996
Copyright © 1995 by Oliver Sacks
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1995.
Earlier versions of the essays in this work were originally published in the following:The New York Review of Books: “The Case of the Colorblind Painter” and “The Last Hippie”The New Yorker: “An Anthropologist on Mars,” “The Landscape of His Dreams,” “Prodigies,” “To See and Not See,” and “A Surgeon’s Life”
Henri Matisse, “Negresse,” copyright © 1996 by Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Owing to limitations of space, permission to reprint previously published material may be found following the index.
The Library of Congress has catalogued the Knopf edition as follows:
Sacks, Oliver W.An anthropologist on Mars: 7 paradoxical tales / OliverSacks.—1st ed.p.  cm.Includes bibliographical references (p.).eISBN: 978-0-345-80588-11. Neurology—Anecdotes.  I. TitleRC351.S1948  1995616.8 DC2094-26733CIPVintage ISBN: 0-679-75697-3
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To the seven whose stories are related here
The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, but queerer than we can imagine.
J. B. S. Haldane
Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has.
(attributed to) William Osler
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Preface
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
Selected Bibliography
References
Index
Permissions Acknowledgments
Photographic Credits
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Acknowledgments
First, I am deeply grateful to my subjects: “Jonathan I.,” “Greg F.,” “Carl Bennett,” “Virgil,” Franco Magnani, Stephen Wiltshire, and Temple Grandin. To them, their families, their friends, their physicians and therapists, I owe an infinite debt.
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