
Oliver Sacks
9 July 1933 – 30 Aug 2015
Oliver Sacks (1933–2015) was a British neurologist, writer, and science communicator, known for making neurology accessible to the general public through his works. He spent much of his career in the United States, where he worked as a physician and university professor. His writings focused on real neurological cases and on the relationship between the brain, the mind, and human experience. His work was distinguished by combining scientific research with a close and humanistic perspective toward his patients. --- Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) fue un neurólogo, escritor y divulgador científico británico, conocido por acercar la neurología al público mediante sus obras. Desarrolló gran parte de su carrera en Estados Unidos, donde ejerció como médico y profesor universitario. Sus escritos se centraron en casos neurológicos reales y en la relación entre el cerebro, la mente y la experiencia humana. Su trabajo destacó por combinar la investigación científica con una perspectiva cercana y humanista hacia sus pacientes.
Books
- The Vintage Book of Amnesia
- Hidden Histories of Science
- Awakenings
- The Best American Science Writing 2003
- The best American science and nature writing 2013
- Letters
- Asylum
- A Leg to Stand on
- Yeḳitsot
- ʻAl regel aḥat
- L'ull de la ment
- Benim Periyodik Tablom
- Gratitude
- Migraine
- The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island
- Oliver Sacks Omnibus (A 4-in-1 book) (: AWAKENINGS, A LEG TO STAND ON, THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT, SEEING VOICES) (: AWAKENINGS, A LEG TO STAND ON, THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT, SEEING VOICES)
- Seeing Voices
- Awakenings ; A leg to stand on ; The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales ; and, Seeing voices
- Musicophilia
- Dear Oliver
- Een been om op te staan
- Selected Letters
- הזיות
- An Anthropologist on Mars
- Uncle Tungsten
- Vintage Sacks
- כיצד לחיות עם מיגרנה
- The Mind's Eye
- Oaxaca Gunlugu
- Seeing Language in Sign
- Everything in Its Place
- ha-Ish she-ḥashav she-ishto hi kovʻa
- Oliver Sacks
- עין הנפש
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Ebrio de enfermedad
- On the Move
- The River of Consciousness
- Freud and the Neurosciences
- Music in the Head
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