![]() ![]() The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is often credited for playing a part in this revival of the tradition of case history, and I like to think that is so.” Longer, more personal, detailed case histories were considered archaic and ‘unscientific.’ This is beginning to change again-many medical schools have introduced courses in Narrative Medicine, and whole generations of younger neurologists see the case history as a crucial part of medicine. “When I came to publish my own case histories in the 1970s and 1980s, it was virtually impossible to do so in medical journals, which required charts and tables, and ‘objective’ language. In his essay, Sacks writes about how some of the people he described thirty years before are still alive and thriving, and he connects the work that began with “Hat” to his later books, which often brought deeper understanding to the conditions he first described back in 1985. We are thrilled to announce that this essay will be published for the first time this month, as the preface to a brand new edition of the book. Shortly before his death, Oliver Sacks wrote an essay looking back on his seminal 1985 book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. ![]()
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