Oliver Sacks, author portrait
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Oliver Sacks

OLIVER SACKS, referred by the New York Times as “the poet laureate of medicine,” spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Awakenings. His work was frequently published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and over the years, he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
A Leg to Stand On
Everything in Its Place
The River of Consciousness
On the Move
Hallucinations
The Mind's Eye
Musicophilia
Uncle Tungsten
The Island of the Colorblind
An Anthropologist On Mars

Books

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
A Leg to Stand On
Everything in Its Place
The River of Consciousness
On the Move
Hallucinations
The Mind's Eye
Musicophilia
Uncle Tungsten
The Island of the Colorblind
An Anthropologist On Mars

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