Analysis: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

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The context of the paper is provided by The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tasks (Sacks, 1985) and some of the material covered in the class lectures and readings. Human are considered to be the most important form of life on earth. This is not because of the human body, but the thing that separates us from other species is the brain. It is no exaggeration to say that the human brain is the most complex organ and there is nothing as remarkable or as strange as human mind. A brain disorder is any disorder or diseases of the nervous system that will inhibit a person from normal behavior. A person can be born with brain impairment or it can also occur later in life, as a result of an injury or as a part of a disease. There are many different types of brain disorder, and all will have large effects on a person’s life. This essay will discuss some of the stories of the patients with specific neurological disorder.
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Through class lectures and readings I learnt that a certain brain disorder can leave a person with inability to behave normally. The physical dysfunction of the brain that often affects a person's sense of who they are is the study that’s important in neurology. The book offer further support on this topic by showing an example of a lady who loses her entire sixth sense. Usually we do not think about rights of our own body because these rights are “so automatic, so familiar, we never give it a thought” (Sacks 43). Study of the proprioception helps us understand that being a human we sometimes take people crazy and jump to the conclusion at once about their behavior without realizing that they are not crazy in fact normal people can’t imagine what they are

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