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Ropper, Allan H.

Summary: "Tell the doctor where it hurts." It sounds simple enough, unless the problem affects the very organ that produces awareness and generates speech. What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this book, Dr. Allan Ropper and Brian Burrell take the reader behind the scenes at Harvard Medical School's neurology unit to show how a seasoned diagnostician faces down...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 ROP

Sacks, Oliver

Summary: "Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 SAC

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