In this book Apostolidou claims Sacks for Anthropology, yet she achieves more than that. By focusing on the many points in his career where he took the humanistic rather than the scientistic turn, she has claimed this novelist of the neurological for a broader Humanism.

Charles Stewart, University College London, UK

An Anthropologist writes a book on Oliver Sacks and, as disciples of Sacks, we learn a great deal that helps us understand both Sacks and his books. But this is also a book that speaks beautifully about how science in general - and medicine in particular - ought to be in our times, having forgotten, and now slowly and painfully rediscovering, what it originally was and what it originally sought to be. And not only science, but also books about science, which should 'bridge the gap between scientific papers and the general reader'. As Sacks wished: 'What I most want to do-in anything I write-is to try and restore something of the communication which seems to have been lost between scientific writing and the common reader'. The very book in our hands, accessible yet informed, thorough, and scholar, at the same time, succeeds perfectly in achieving this goal.

- Constantin Potagas, Professor of Neurology and Neuropsychology, Athens, Greece