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1. • • He wrote extensively about music and music therapy in his best-seller, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Knopf, 2007). He chronicled his own experience with ocular melanoma and examined the visual brain in his books The Mind’s Eye (2010) and Hallucinations (2012).
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   • He explored the many manifestations of migraines in Migraine, wrote about an unfortunate accident involving a bull in A Leg To Stand On, and published a spellbinding account of his trip to Mexico with a group of fern enthusiasts in Oaxaca Journal. Dr. Sacks wrote two memoirs: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood and On the Move: A Life.

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   • * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more books, click here. Oliver Sacks has 56 books on Goodreads with 1517381 ratings. Oliver Sacks’s most popular book is The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinica...

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   What is Oliver Sacks best known for?

   • Oliver Sacks is best known for his books of case histories such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, An Anthropologist on Mars, and Awakenings.

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   Is Dr Sacks a poet?

   • The New York Times referred to Dr. Sacks as “the poet laureate of medicine,” and in 2002 he was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize by Rockefeller University, which recognizes the scientist as poet.

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   What did Dr Sacks do for a living?

   • He was also a visiting professor at the University of Warwick. In 1966 Dr. Sacks began working as a consulting neurologist for Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, a chronic care hospital where he encountered an extraordinary group of patients, many of whom had spent decades in strange, frozen states, like human statues, unable to initiate movement.

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   • The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks is a journey into the mind and work of world-renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Filmmaker Dempsey Rice’s decade of interviews with Oliver combine with animation, archival material and cinematic new filming, to take this film beyond conventional biography and into Oliver’s mind and world.

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   Dr. Sacks wrote two memoirs: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood and On the Move: A Life. He engaged with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor in The River of Consciousness, and reflected on what it means to live a good and worthwhile life in Gratitude.

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   In 1967 Sacks first began to write of his experiences with some of his neurological patients. His first such book, Ward 23, was burned by Sacks during an episode of self-doubt. [37] His books have been translated into over 25 languages.

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   He wrote extensively about music and music therapy in his best-seller, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Knopf, 2007). He chronicled his own experience with ocular melanoma and examined the visual brain in his books The Mind’s Eye (2010) and Hallucinations (2012).

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   • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Oliver Sacks.
   • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Oliver Sacks.
   • An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales Oliver Sacks.
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   Oliver Sacks has written a total of 10 books in his writing career, all of which were highly appreciated by his fans. Most of his books were written along the course of the medical treatment of his patients.

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   Apr 2, 2014 · Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks wrote numerous works on patients with often unusual conditions. His titles include ‘Awakenings’ and ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.’

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    Mar 20, 2022 · Books Archive - Oliver Sacks | Official Website of Author, Neurologist & Foundation. Migraine. “Oliver Sacks’s commentary is so erudite, so gracefully [...] By Greg Fearon |March 20, 2022|Comments Off on Migraine. Read More.