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This 3 page paper examines a case study in An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks. Tourette's Syndrome is discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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that involves a painter who becomes colorblind later in life as well as a tale about an artist with an excellent memory and also a man whose sight is partially
restored. The way that the brain functions in light of different conditions seems to be the central theme of this interesting book. Oliver Sacks provides intriguing cases that prompt one
to think about how the body really works. In one of the stories, there is a surgeon with Tourettes syndrome by the name of Dr. Carl Bennett. Before relaying the
case, Sacks explains that there are people with Tourettes in every walk of life (79). He writes about the first time he met Bennett: "I was struck both by his
bizarre tics and by his dignity and calm" (Sacks 79). Sacks talks to Dr. Bennett about the condition. For example, he asks him why he sits near the light when
the light is so disturbing (Sacks 83). Bennett answers that it is stimulation (Sacks 83). Background information about Bennetts case study is relayed as well. Bennett first was confronted with
Tourettes when he was just seven years old (Sacks 85). He was a loner as a child as he had many things that would cause him to keep a distance
from other children, such as twitching behavior, bands on his teeth, and glasses (Sacks 85). From an early age, Bennett realized that he was good with his hands (Sacks 85).
Sacks follows Bennett on a day when he sees patients. Sacks relays an example of a case where the surgeon sees a patient: "Something about the sterile field, the
prohibition, seemed to stir his Tourettes; he made sudden darting motions, or incipient motions, of his sterile, gloved right hand toward the ungloved, unwashed, "dirty" part of his left arm.
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