Oliver Sacks

Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter …

"An explorer of that most wondrous of islands, the human brain," writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, "Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands." Both kinds figure movingly in this book--part travelogue, part autobiography, part medical mystery story--in which Sacks's journeys to a tiny …

Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the …

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood is a memoir by Oliver Sacks about his childhood published in 2001. The book is named for Sacks's Uncle Dave, owner of a business named Tungstalite, which made incandescent lightbulbs with a tungsten filament, whom Oliver nicknamed Uncle Tungsten. Uncle Tungsten was …

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive …

Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly …

เดอะแมนฮูมิสทุกฮิสไวฟ์ฟอร์เอแฮตแอนด์อัธเธอร์คลินิเคิลเทลส์ เป็นหนังสือที่พิมพ์ในปี ค.ศ. 1985 ของประสาทแพทย์ โอลิเวอร์ แซ็กส์ อธิบายประวัติผู้ป่วยของคนไข้เขาบางคน ชื่อหนังสือมาจากกรณีศึกษาของชายผู้มีภาวะเสียการระลึกรู้ทางตา คือ "ชายผู้สำคัญผิดว่าภรรยาตนเป็นหมวก" ซึ่งมีการใช้ไปเป็นเรื่องอุปรากรที่เปิดฉากในปี ค.ศ. 1986 …