Oliver Sacks - The New York Times.
Oliver Sacks quickly found out though that Dr. Bennett's life was so unbelievably unique because of the amazing fact that he was a full blown tourette and also able to perform such great surgery. To study Dr. Bennett's behavior, Sacks was invited to say with the Bennett family for months so that he could get the best understanding of how he lived his spectacular life.
He confronted death directly, with courageous curiosity and radiant lucidity, in one of his New York Times essays posthumously collected in the small, enormously life-affirming book Gratitude (public library) — that great parting gift which gave us Dr. Sacks’s warm wisdom on the measure of living and the dignity of dying, edited by his partner, the writer and photographer Bill Hayes, and.
When Oliver Sacks died in August, 2015, the medical and literary worlds lost one of their most curious and ebullient interdisciplinary writers, a man who could see the poetry in neuroscience and a role for biography in medical practice. There have been many tributes to Sacks and his career, but more remains to be said about his major contributions to literature in the late 20th and early 21st.
In this 1995 book, Oliver Sacks builds on the work he started in the celebrated The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, but with longer, more in-depth essays and far fewer case studies. Sacks continues his game-changing focus on patients as complex people grappling with often debilitating conditions, who are nonetheless active agents in their own experiences, as opposed to being passive.
Oliver Sacks's The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat As a child, I watched Alfred Hitchcock Theater, The Twilight Zone and other science fiction or horror shows. Often times the storyline was based on a victim's mental problems or their skewed perception of the world.
Oliver Sacks has just months to live, the neurologist and best-selling author announced Thursday in a moving essay for The New York Times.
Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE (born 9 July 1933) is an American-British neurologist, writer, and amateur chemist who is Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine.Between 2007 and 2012, he was professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, where he also held the position of “Columbia Artist”.Before that, he spent many years on the clinical faculty of Yeshiva.