Book Description | “The Man Who Tasted Words” is a book about the suffering of the patient and the bewilderment of the doctor, about our senses that we are accustomed to having so we do not think about life without them, about pain and the importance and cruelty of its presence and the burden of its absence, about the smell of memories and the taste of grandmothers’ food. About the senses and sensation and a lot of mystery around our nervous system that We still have a long way to go to discover it
Because the book adds to the Arabic library with its unique topic, when translating it, we took care to enrich the reading process by adding footnotes that clarify the ambiguous text due to cultural, societal, historical, or medical considerations, and correcting some common concepts about neurology, such as the concept of sciatica and migraine, which are footnotes that were not It is found in the English text, but we saw its addition as a benefit and bridging the knowledge gap (which is not large) between the Arab reader and the text. |