Biology 202 Book Commentary

Preface

The Forbidden Experiment Book Commentary

Sophie Balis-Harris
Web Book Commentary: Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer

Sophie Balis-Harris
Web Book Commentary: Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer

    Oliver Sacks’ novel, An Anthropologist on Mars, contains seven fascinating and strange neurobiological stories that explore unique perceptions and experiences of both the world and oneself in the world. The first tale, “The Colorblind Painter”, is about Jonathan I., a painter who, after an accident, lost his ability to perceive color in the world, his memories, and even his dreams. He could not remember what color ever looked like (the entire concept was obliterated from his brain), yet, intriguingly, it was determined that he could discriminate wavelengths of light.

Oliver Sacks, author of Musicophilia, is a distinguished best-selling author as well as physician and professor of neurology and psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Center.  He has even been referred to as, “the poet laureate of medicine” by the New York Times.  His other works include Awakenings (1973), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), An Anthropologist on Mars (1885) amongst numerous others.

Herman Marcia

Professor Grobstein

05/06/2010

My Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming

Book Commentary: Where is the Mango Princess?

Uncertain how to begin my commentary on Temple Grandin’s Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Human Behavior, I revisited my book commentary for Paul’s Emergence class, which I took in the spring of my freshman year.

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