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Compiled and edited by Narinder Kapur. 426 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-852144-8.

This book is a collection of papers that report the experiences of physicians and other health care professionals as patients who have had neurologic illnesses. All but four papers were written by the afflicted professionals. The oldest paper, the famous description by Lordat of his own aphasia, was originally published in French in 1843. All the other accounts were originally published in English between 1870 and 1996, the majority in the past two decades.

The papers are grouped in two parts, one dealing with cognitive disorders (sections on memory, language, and visual disorders) and the other with clinical conditions (sections . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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