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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.”

He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.

Dr. Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.

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British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

Born 9 July 1933
Died 2015

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  • Cover of: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

Born 9 July 1933
Died 2015
Subjects
Neurology, New York Times reviewed, Science, Anecdotes, Case studies, Fallstudiensammlung, History, Large type books, Nervous System Diseases, Neurologie, Neuropsychology, New York Times bestseller, Autobiography, Biography, Cas, Études de, Cognition disorders, Maladies, Neurologists, Neurologists, biography, Neuropsychiatrie, Parkinson Disease, Parkinson's disease, Parkinsonism, Patient, Perception visuelle
Places
England, Caroline Islands, Guam, Micronesia, Micronesia (Federated States), United States
People
Oliver Sacks (1933-), Oliver Sacks (1933-2015), A.L. Wigan, A.M. Santhouse, A.W. Beard, Admiral Horatio Nelson, Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Alethea Hayter, Alexandre Brierre de Boismont, Alfred Maury, Allan Hobson, Alref Russel Wallace, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Ambroise Paré, Amy Tan, Andreas Mavromatis, Andrew Newberg, Arthur Thomas Myers, August Strindberg (1849-1912), Augusta Bonnard, Babak Boroojerdi, Barbara Swartz, Basile N. Landis, Ben Helfgott
Time
Strike, 1988

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  • Oliver W. Sacks
  • Sa ke si
  • Oliver Sack, M.D.
  • Oliver SACKS
  • sacks oliver
  • OLIVER SACKS

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September 10, 2023 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
August 5, 2023 Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten merge authors
August 5, 2023 Edited by Freso Add links to BookBrainz and MusicBrainz
December 12, 2021 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternative names
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import