An ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS Author:OLIVER SACKS Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travelers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of several such travelers, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating and a man who confronts the challengers of having his vision restored after more than forty ye... more »ars of blindness. The exploration of these individual lives is not one that can be madein a cosulting room or office, ands Sacks has deserted the hospital by and large to join his subjects in their own environments.« less