Book Discussion: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by O Sacks

Unlike the usual BYOB format of this group, this is an assigned reading format. You are expected to have read some of the book to join the discussion :)

About the book:

# The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

Tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: 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; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.”

Note:

• location subject to change but we'll keep it around Wan Chai District.
• You must buy something at the venue.
• First timer attendees are requested to contribute 20HKD to fund the Meetup Group Subscription.
• No-Shows make the host sad (please update your attendance)