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	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of Dr. Sacks's patients.
		The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.
		The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered in 1986.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat (364 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat : And Other Clinical Tales: Books: Oliver Sacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This book deals with patients who are suffering from various forms of diseases which impact their living and thinking selves so dramatically that the core of the book seems to be coming to terms with what these states of mind could mean.
		There's the man who has absolutely no short term memory and is thus forced into a farcical and tragical string of endless flights of fance to make things fit into his worldview.
		In the case of 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat', Dr. P., a musician of distinction, teacher and accomplished painter, developed a type of visual agnosia or prosopagnosia, where he could not recognize faces and came to see things, people and objects as something else.
	www.amazon.ca /Man-Mistook-His-Wife-Hat/dp/0684853949 (2299 words)

	MICHAEL NYMAN
		By deepening the case study into a narrative or tale we find a 'who' as well as a 'what', real people whose essential being is very relevant in the higher reaches of neurology.
		As they are leaving, Dr. P reaches for his hat, but mistakes the shape of his wife for the hatstand, reaching instead for her head.
		In this he is helped by his wife, who lays everything out -clothes, washing things, food- in a pattern they both know.
	www.michaelnyman.com /disco/12 (984 words)

	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
		In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores a wide variety of neurological disorders.
		For example, he relates the story of one brain damaged woman who was fed-up with performing boring "remedial" tasks and wanted to go to the theatre more often.
		In summary, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks is essential reading for anyone who may suffer neurological problems (and, ultimately, that's all of us).
	www.321books.co.uk /reviews/psychology/man-mistook.htm (485 words)

	Amazon.com: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales: Books: Oliver W. Sacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A neurologist who claims to be equally interested in disease and people, Sacks (Awakenings, etc.) explores neurological disorders with a novelist's skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings.
		It is utterly fascinating to know that, as a result of a neurological condition, a man can actually mistake his wife for a hat and not realize it.
		Dr. Sacks is a neurologist who not only knows what he is talking about when it comes to medicine, but he is also deeply committed to his patients and their well-being.
	www.amazon.com /Man-Mistook-His-Wife-Hat/dp/0060970790 (2496 words)

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	Julian's Jabberings: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
		In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, neurologist Oliver Sacks describes some of the more noteworthy cases that he’s encountered, some of which are intriguing.
		In contrast, a patient with tonal agnosia, who understood words but not speaking tones, timbre, etc., complained that Reagan was not cogent.
		As a result, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is less appealing than other books I’ve read about psychology and mental functioning.
	www.mindspring.com /~teleri/julian/2005/03/man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-hat.html (155 words)

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		We would develop a deep human sympathy feeling so that these man and women, however strangely afflicted are felt as intensely real and human.
		There is an instance when Dr. P is trying to take his hat and he tries to hold his wife’s head and tries to pull it off thinking that it was a hat.
		We encounter every sort of excess and defect, every sort of aberration and transformation — patients who become, briefly, under the spur of neurological disorder, flirts, visionaries etc. These brilliant tales are not simply studies of disease but of life itself struggling against extraordinary adversity.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~pbajaj/files/Analysis_critique.doc (1200 words)

	Random House for High School Teachers
		Oliver Sacks is the author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and many other books, for which he has received numerous awards, including the Hawthornden Prize, a Polk Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
		The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is well know as an explorer of the human mind—a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions.
		Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land...
	www.randomhouse.com /highschool/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=26646 (453 words)

	Sacks, Oliver: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At the end of the interview, at which his wife is present, P. appears to grasp his wife's head and try to lift it off and put it on his own head.
		During the second interview, at P.'s home, P. is unable to recognize the rose in Sacks' lapel, describing it as "a convoluted red form with a linear green attachment." He is encouraged to speculate on what it might be, and guesses it could be a flower.
		That P. is a cultivated man, immersed in love--of music--which wins him the devotion of wife and students and colleagues, gives a kind of eccentric Belvederian charm to the story.
	mchip00.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/sacks461-des-.html (496 words)

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	Brightsurf: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
		This book is simply wonderful, and I recommend this book to everyone interested in miraculous connections and relations of human body and mind, as in human destinies of those who live with these links damaged or broken.
		Sacks has succeeded in writing a book with very interesting and perhaps complicated medical information and terminology, together with marvelous story-telling style with which every one of these true stories has the power to awake strong emotions and create lasting curiosity in every human being for the wonder of human being.
		Growing evidence shows that the dinosaurs and their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact alone, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism in India and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Period.
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	The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
		The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
		The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Sacks, Oliver
		A collection of clinical tales that recounts, with sensitivity and empathy, the amazingly complex lives of people who live with neurological impairments.
	www.biblio.com /books/101354866.html (299 words)

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		The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (John's Book Pages)
		This book describes a number of interesting cases that Dr. Sacks, a neurologist, has encountered over the years.
		These include a man who can't recognize faces although his brain is otherwise normal, a woman who suddenly hears loud Irish music in her head, and a pair of autistic twins who converse in 6 digit prime numbers.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/manwhomistookhiswifeforahat.html (93 words)

	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1987) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1987) (TV)
		Plot Outline: Opera singer and professor Dr P is examined both in a clinic and in his home, as he suffers from a degeneration of the occipital lobe that allows him to see details, but not wholes.
		This film is uplifting in a curious sort of way, until the gun-toting, hat-throwing finale, which I thought was a bit far fetched.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0093487 (267 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Books: Oliver Sacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It's a very easy and enjoyable read and most of the cases are perhaps better known than the ones in 'The Man who mistook his wife...' I notice that Amazon have paired it with Sach's book as a perfect partner so they must agree that the two are complementary.
		I am assuming that there is of course a technical meaning behind these words in the neurological field, but as "Hat" is read nowadays by so many modern readers from the social sciences as well as medical ones, it seems archaic and inappropriate.
		That said, towards the end of the book I learned more about Sacks' views on his patients and how he at the time must have been a trailblazer in his field in terms of attitudes.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Man-Mistook-His-Wife-Hat/dp/0330294911 (1260 words)

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		There was good explanation of the jargon and a real insight into how fragile each persons existence is and how much of our life we take for granted.
		There is a moving story about a man who thinks he is in 1945 and when he sees himself does not recognise the old man, and another man who is walking at right angles to the world and has no concept of his lack of balance.
		I truly think this is a great book with the right balance to keep the lay man and a person with some knowledge gripped from one case study to another.
	www.travelingo.org /books/0330294911 (532 words)

	GEC101 Week 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Assignment for 4/4: Read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, pp.
		Assignment for 4/6: Read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, pp.
		447-51, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, pp.
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	Amazon.com: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales: Books: Oliver Sacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Amazon.com: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales: Books: Oliver Sacks
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		All of the stories caught my attention, but "The Disembodied Lady" was probably the most disturbing.
	www.amazon.com /Who-Mistook-His-Wife-Hat/dp/0684853949 (2565 words)

	Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, by Sacks Sacks, Oliver W.- Textbook - Bookbyte.com
		Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, by Sacks Sacks, Oliver W.- Textbook - Bookbyte.com
		Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, by Sacks
		Presents a series of stories about men and women who, representing both medical and literary oddities, raise fundamental questions about the nature of reality
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		Never president, but a brilliant writer, friend of Washington, one of the architects of our economy, a man of large sexual appetite, who died in a duel that was 'put up job' with Aaron Burr.
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	Movie Info for The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat on MSN Movies
		This opera, with music by Michael Nyman, begins with a straightforward rendition of a story from neurologist Oliver Sacks, who recounts how a progressive brain disorder has so skewed a music professor's ability to recognize objects that he quite literally becomes The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
		The opera based on that story is then screened, with tenor Emile Belcourt playing the doctor, baritone Frederick Wescott as the misperceiving professor, and soprano Patricia Hooper as the hat-like wife.
		Though the professor's perceptions are diminished in one respect, he never loses his ability to teach music, or to play chess in his head -- though he cannot distinguish the actual chess pieces on the board.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=12831 (150 words)

	Avantgarde Music. Michael Nyman: biography, discography, reviews, links
		The elegant pulsing scores of Michael (Britain, 1944), such as Water Dances (1985) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (1987), were a post-modernist version of renaissance music.
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		Il coronamento della sua carriera e' l'opera da camera The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (1987), per settetto, che continua e trasforma la grande tradizione britannica delle opere da camera, facendo leva sul minimalismo romantico di Adams, sulla liederistica espressionista di Britten, sulla canzone da musical di Sondheim, sui brani-conversazione di Ashley.
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	The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
		The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, was an extremely interesting and out of the ordinary.
		Meet patients with acute Tourettes and follow him through his recovery and after recovery experiences.
		Though the book contains medical vocab and highly complex theories, it is a book that will introduce you to the complexities and abnormalities of the human brain.
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	R.J. Julia Booksellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sacks, one of my favorite people, is a neurobiologist who recounts in this book the stories of about 20 of his patients.
		All have unusual neurological predicaments, from the surgeon who, outside of the operating room, has uncontrollable ticks to the man who lost his memory, and with it much of his past history.
		This is the story of a white woman who adopts a Cherokee girl and when the lawyer from the Cherokee nation visits she tries to have the girl returned to her native people, despite her mother originally abandoning her.
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	Michael Nyman: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (Score) at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians
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