Oliver Sacks

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Beschreibung

A remarkable celebration of Oliver Sacks's varied interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose.

Autor

Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients about whom he would write in his book Awakenings. Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.

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Produktdetails

• Picador Collection
• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781035068364
• ISBN-10: 1035068362
• Artikelnr.: 71746355

Rezensionen

Life bursts through all of Oliver Sacks's writing. He was and will remain a brilliant singularity The New York Times Book Review