The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

A music teacher can see perfectly but can no longer recognise objects, and on his way out reaches for his wife's head, mistaking her for his hat. A man is permanently stuck in 1945 and re-meets his brother as a stranger every few minutes.

Sacks wrote his patients as people rather than conditions, and each of these twenty-four cases turns into a question about what a self is made of — memory, proprioception, the ability to recognise a face. The section on the gifted, including autistic twins who trade prime numbers for pleasure, is the best in the book.

The book that made neurology readable, from the most humane science writer of his generation.

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