Tuesday, March 29, 2011

My Opinion

Iv looked at other book covers by Oliver Sacks.

This book "Migraine" is about An investigation of the many manifestations of migraine, including the visual hallucinations and distortions of space, time and body image which migraineurs can experience. I like this cover as it is an illustration which looks hand drawn. I think it shows how it feels to have a migraine. 


In this famous book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" In his most famous book,Sacks presents a variety of neurological case studies from the more extreme end of the spectrum. Thus we are introduced to Christina, who has no sense of her body at all; to Mr Thompson, who reinvents his world every few seconds; to poor Jimmie, stuck forever in 1945; and of course, to Dr P., who is indeed unable to distinguish between his spouse and his headgear. I am not to fond of this cover as I feel it is very plain and a alot more could have been done with it considering the title of the book sounds exciting.



 I really like the cover of this book "The Mind's Eye" as it gives the idea of an eye test chart and blurs out some letters making you feel like you can not read it. This is strangely appropriate, though, because The Mind’s Eye is a personal book.  Although there are four patients through whom we learn about alexia, aphasia, and stereoscopy (Sue, a neurobiologist, has the three-dimensionality of our world revealed to her in her fifties), the main character is Dr. Sacks himself.  We observe his diligent diagnostic procedure and delight in his research tangents; we follow him through his clinical experience and into the swimming pool.   But it is when Dr. Sacks himself becomes the patient that The Mind’s Eye separates itself from its ten sibling books.

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