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SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)

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

On the move: A life.