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 silence, in one of modern medicine's most astonishing and poignant true stories.

• Three complete Oliver Sacks paperbacks in one great-value collection
• Written by a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling neurologist and author
• Blends rigorous case study detail with warm, accessible storytelling
• Awakenings inspired the acclaimed feature film of the same name
• Ideal gift for readers of popular science, psychology and true medical stories
• Brand new paperback set, perfect for building a home science and medicine library

About the Author
Oliver Sacks was born in London in 1933 and trained in medicine at Oxford's Queen's College before completing his residency in the United States. He spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist in New York, treating the patients who would inspire his acclaimed books, including Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia and Hallucinations. The New York Times dubbed him "the poet laureate of medicine", and he was appointed CBE in 2008 before his death in 2015.

Why You'll Love This Collection
For anyone fascinated by the brain's mysteries, this set delivers three of the finest works of medical non-fiction ever written, combining scientific insight with genuinely moving human stories you won't forget.

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