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Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. [2] Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford , before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 non-fiction book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. Sacks chose the title of the book from the case study of one of his patients who has visual agnosia , [ 1 ] a neurological condition that leaves him unable to recognize ...
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is a 2019 American biographical documentary film directed and created by Ric Burns about Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist and science historian, based on his autobiography, His Own Life. [1]
Dr. Oliver Sacks died Sunday at his home in New York City, his assistant, Kate Edgar, said.
By ISABELLE CHAPMAN Oliver Sacks, the beloved author and world-famous neurologist, has announced that he has terminal liver cancer and just months to live, according to a op-ed he wrote for the ...
Though Sacks died in 2015 at age 82, “Brilliant Minds” takes place in present-day New York. In order to make Dr. Wolf believable as a modern character, Grassi opted to give some facets of ...
Awakenings is a 1973 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks.It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic. [1] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital (now Beth Abraham Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing) in the Bronx, New York. [2]
A Leg to Stand On is a 1984 autobiographical account by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing his recovery from psychogenic leg paralysis following a mountaineering accident. The book has been described as a skillful description of the depersonalization of functional neurological symptoms. Neuropsychiatric specialists who have recommended reading ...