Oliver Sacks (1933–2015)
Autor(a) de The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
About the Author
Oliver Sacks was born in London, England on July 9, 1933. He received a medical degree from Queen's College, Oxford University and performed his internship at Middlesex Hospital in London and Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He completed his residency at UCLA. In 1965, he became a clinical mostrar mais neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor and Beth Abraham Hospital. His work in a Bronx charity hospital led him to write the book Awakenings in 1973. The book inspired a play by Harold Pinter and became a film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. His other works included An Anthropologist on Mars, The Mind's Eye, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Uncle Tungsten, Musicophilia, A Leg to Stand On, On the Move: A Life, and Gratitude. In 2007, he ended his 42-year relationship with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to accept an interdisciplinary teaching position at Columbia. In 2012, he returned to the New York University School of Medicine as a professor of neurology. He died of cancer on August 30, 2015 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Oliver Sacks
Awakenings, A Leg to Stand On, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Seeing Voices (1984) 129 exemplares
Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2016) 73 exemplares
Der Tag, an dem mein Bein fortging. Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte (2008) 8 exemplares
De wereld der onnozelen 3 exemplares
Journal of Consciousness Studies (Controversies in Science & the Humanities, Volume 1, No. 2 (1994)) (1994) 2 exemplares
Dr. Oliver Sacks on Music and the Mind 2 exemplares
Speed {The New Yorker, August 23, 2004 P. 60} 2 exemplares
Oliver Sacks 3 Books Collection Set (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Hallucinations, Awakenings) (2020) 2 exemplares
Oliver Sacks Reader 2 exemplares
Oliver Sacks, Collection of Books 1 exemplar
Neurologia e anima (articolo) 1 exemplar
Der Tag, an dem mein Bein fortging 1 exemplar
Emicrania - Tomo I 1 exemplar
Comprende la psicología 1 exemplar
Emicrania - Tomo II 1 exemplar
Love, Lunacy, and a Life Fully Lived 1 exemplar
Ontwaken in verbijstering & Stemmen zien 1 exemplar
My Own Life 1 exemplar
'Making up the Mind' in NYRB 8 April 1993 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (1998) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 1,921 exemplares
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (2015) — Prefácio — 1,180 exemplares
The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound (1971) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 220 exemplares
A Glorious Accident: Understanding Our Place in the Cosmic Puzzle (1993) — Contribuidor — 219 exemplares
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contribuidor — 216 exemplares
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions (2009) — Prefácio — 191 exemplares
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Detective Novel (Benny Cooperman Mysteries) (2005) — Posfácio — 89 exemplares
Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return (2008) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 54 exemplares
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Contribuidor — 53 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Sacks, Oliver Wolf
- Outros nomes
- Sacks, Oliver W.
- Data de nascimento
- 1933-07-09
- Data de falecimento
- 2015-08-30
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- País (no mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Londen, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- cancer
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Educação
- Oxford University (BA|Physiology and biology|Queen's College)
Oxford University (MA)
Oxford University (BM BCh) - Ocupações
- neurologist
writer
professor (neurology|psychiatry) - Relações
- Eban, Abba (cousin)
Lynn, Jonathan (cousin)
Sacks, Jonathan (nephew)
Hayes, Bill (partner)
Miller, Jonathan (friend, #1)
Aumann, Robert (cousin) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
New York Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Columbia artist (1st ∙ Columbia University)
Music Has Power Award (2000)
Beth Abraham (40 years of service)
Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2001)
Asteroid Namesake (asteroid 84928 | 2008)
Commander, Order of the British Empire (2008) (mostrar todos 17)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1996)
Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (honorary medical advisor)
Oskar Pfister Award (1988)
Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award (1989)
Mental Health Award (2004)
Fellow, Royal College of Physicians
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Neurological Association
American Psychoanalytic Association
Association of British Neurologists
New York Academy of Sciences
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Oliver Sacks (Londen, 1933) is hoogleraar in de neurologie aan het Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Als auteur verwierf hij internationale faam met onder andere De man die zijn vrouw voor een hoed hield, neurologische case-histories uit zijn eigen praktijk, en Ontwaken in verbijstering, waarin hij op betrokken wijze het ‘ontwaken’ uit de slaapziekte (Encephalitis lethargica) beschrijft.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 50
- Also by
- 41
- Membros
- 38,389
- Popularidade
- #470
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 793
- ISBN
- 789
- Línguas
- 26
- Marcado como favorito
- 149