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Originally Posted by Andanzas
I think The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is an excellent starting point. I've been told that An Anthropologist on Mars is even better, but I haven't read it yet.
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Both excellent! Also Musicophilia, The Mind's Eye ... just about anything he wrote is worth reading.
Oliver Sacks had a way of showing the humanity in people that others might have treated as case studies.
The movie Awakenings, starring Robin Williams, was adapted only loosely from the book, IMHO, but it's still a very good movie. Just don't expect it to substitute for the book.