Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (PDF) (Print)

A bestseller when it was originally published in 1985, this collection of patients case histories by physician Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) explores their neurological disorders and the strategies they adopted to cope with them. The 24 cases include a man with a special form of visual agnosia, patients with Tourettes syndrome, and the 'lost mariner' - a former sailor with no recent memory, isolated in a single moment of being. Slightly off-mint.