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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Neurologists, Neurologists, biography, Neurology, Biography, New York Times bestseller, Science, Technical writing, Aging, Agnosia, American sign language, Authors, biography, Autobiography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical, Biografía, Biographies, Case Reports, Case studies, Deaf, Death, Freud, sigmund, 1856-1939, Gay men, biography, Gratitude, Hearing Impaired Persons, History, InterviewsID Numbers
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