An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical TalesPicador, 1995 - 319 pages 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. |
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