Los Ojos de La Mente (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

All my life I have worried that I might go blind at some point in the future. I thought I only had to worry about something wrong with the eyes but now I find out, thanks to this book, that the brain can also be responsible for blindness and vision problems. So I'm not sure that I wanted to know ...

from cajela

I'm a huge fan of Oliver Sacks, and his latest book is no disappointment. This is his usual style - a collection of essays and case studies on brain function, connected by a common thread. In this case the thread is vision. Sacks' compassion shines through as strongly as his intellect. As always,...

from heterotopic

One of the reviewers here mentioned how s/he enjoyed the last 2 chapters which are about Sacks' Melanoma journal and his philosophical investigation on visual perception (and includes a survey of other memoirs by people suffering from some form of blindness. Vision, as Sacks clearly shows us, is ...

from Meggo

Here's a few things I didn't know before reading this book. One -- that Oliver Sacks is face blind, and has serious difficulties identifying individuals. Two -- that Oliver Sacks can no longer see stereoscopically, even though he is a member of the New York Stereoscopic Society. Three -- that the...

from cwlongshot

Oliver Sacks is always good, but sometimes the medical details can get tedious. I learned a lot about visual perception from this book. The most interesting part was when Dr. Sacks discussed his own battle with vision loss. He revisits many of the patients from earlier books as they relate to thi...