- Foreword to the 1987 Edition [Oliver Sacks]
- Concerning the Book and Its Author
- From the Author
- The Past
- War
- After Being Wounded
- The Rehabilitation Hospital
- Our First Meeting
- Excerpt from Case History No. 3712
- A Brief Summary of Brain Anatomy (The First Digression)
- First Steps in a Shattered World
- His Vision
- His Body
- Space
- Reading
- A Student Again
- Writing, the Turning Point
- “The Story of a Terrible Brain Injury”
- Why Did He Write?
- “My World Has No Memories”
- “My Memories Came Back from the Wrong End”
- The Peculiar Features of His “Speech-Memory”
- On Recollecting Words (The Second Digression)
- Restricted to Undeciphered Images, Disembodied Ideas
- Grammatical Constructions (The Third Digression)
- “All My Knowledge Is Gone”
- A Story That Has No Ending
- “Were It Not for War…” (In Place of an Epilogue)
- Index

The Man with a Shattered World
The History of a Brain Wound
Product Details
PAPERBACK
$33.00 • £28.95 • €30.95
ISBN 9780674546257
Publication Date: 04/30/1987