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What was Oliver Sacks’s medical specialty?
What is neurology?
What model states that disability is influenced by a mix of biological and social factors?
What is the biosocial model?
Which patient never used her hands and referred to them as “useless lumps of dough?”
Who is Madeleine J.? (Ch. 5- Hands)
What did Sacks underexplore when describing Madeleine's life?
What are social and environmental influences?
In what city did Oliver Sacks practice in?
What is New York City?
Which theme discusses how medical treatment may diminish creative/ unique abilities?
What is "normalization vs. uniqueness"?
What neurological shift led Stephen D. to perceive the city as “unmasking itself”?
What is a heightened sense of smell?
Why might Sacks’s case studies be considered culturally narrow?
What is that his cases are rooted in Western medicine?
What was Sacks’s approach to understanding his patients?
What is focusing not on labeling a patient with a syndrome, but on understanding how they coped with and adapted to neurological challenges?
What argument does Sacks make about intellectual disability?
What is the belief that intellectual disability does not diminish a person’s worth, but allows them to experience the world in unique ways?
What ability did Martin A. possess despite his intellectual disability?
What is extraordinary musical intelligence and a passion for opera and Bach?
Why does the focus on extraordinary abilities limit representation of neurodiversity?
What is it that it omits cultural and social perspectives on disability?