SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
1933 – 2015
6 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1970 CE
#9122
Migraine: Evolution of a common disorder.
Revised edition, 1990.
1973 CE
#9131
Awakenings.
Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…
1985 CE
#9133
The man who mistook his wife of a hat and other clinical tales.
Describes the case histories of some of Sacks's patients. The title comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.[1] The book "became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered …
2007 CE
#9132
Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain.
In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment." Kramer wrote, "Lacking the dynamic t…
2009 CE
#9120
Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne. With an essay by Oliver Sacks.
2015 CE
#12684