Oliver Sacks (1933–2015)
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Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Oliver Sacks
Awakenings, A Leg to Stand On, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Seeing Voices (1984) 129 exemplars
Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2016) 73 exemplars
Der Tag, an dem mein Bein fortging. Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte (2008) 8 exemplars
De wereld der onnozelen 3 exemplars
Journal of Consciousness Studies (Controversies in Science & the Humanities, Volume 1, No. 2 (1994)) (1994) 2 exemplars
Dr. Oliver Sacks on Music and the Mind 2 exemplars
Speed {The New Yorker, August 23, 2004 P. 60} 2 exemplars
Oliver Sacks 3 Books Collection Set (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Hallucinations, Awakenings) (2020) 2 exemplars
Oliver Sacks Reader 2 exemplars
Oliver Sacks, Collection of Books 1 exemplars
Neurologia e anima (articolo) 1 exemplars
Der Tag, an dem mein Bein fortging 1 exemplars
Emicrania - Tomo I 1 exemplars
Comprende la psicología 1 exemplars
Emicrania - Tomo II 1 exemplars
Mężczyzna który pomylił swoją żonę z kapeluszem 1 exemplars
Love, Lunacy, and a Life Fully Lived 1 exemplars
Ontwaken in verbijstering & Stemmen zien 1 exemplars
My Own Life 1 exemplars
'Making up the Mind' in NYRB 8 April 1993 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (1998) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 1,921 exemplars
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (2015) — Pròleg — 1,180 exemplars
The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound (1971) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 220 exemplars
A Glorious Accident: Understanding Our Place in the Cosmic Puzzle (1993) — Col·laborador — 219 exemplars
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Col·laborador — 216 exemplars
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions (2009) — Pròleg — 191 exemplars
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Col·laborador — 116 exemplars
Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Detective Novel (Benny Cooperman Mysteries) (2005) — Epíleg — 89 exemplars
Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return (2008) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 54 exemplars
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Sacks, Oliver Wolf
- Altres noms
- Sacks, Oliver W.
- Data de naixement
- 1933-07-09
- Data de defunció
- 2015-08-30
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Londen, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Lloc de defunció
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de la mort
- cancer
- Llocs de residència
- Londen, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Oxford, Oxfordshire, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
New York, New York, VS - Educació
- University of London
The Queen's college University of Oxford
University of California
St Paul's School, London, UK
Middlesex Hospital - Professions
- neuroloog
- Relacions
- Eban, Abba (cousin)
Lynn, Jonathan (cousin)
Sacks, Jonathan (nephew)
Hayes, Bill (partner)
Miller, Jonathan (friend, #1)
Aumann, Robert (cousin) - Organitzacions
- UCLA Medical Center (resident. Neurology)
Beth Abraham Hospital (consulting neurologist ∙ Beth Abraham Health Services)
Yeshiva University (Albert Einstein College of Medicine ∙ clinical professor of neurology)
New York University (School of Medicine ∙ Adjunct professor of Neurology)
Columbia University (professor of clinical neurology and clinical psychology)
Little Sisters of the Poor (consultant neurologist) (mostra-les totes 7)
University of Warwick (visiting professor) - Premis i honors
- 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) (mostra-les totes 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 - Biografia breu
- 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.
Membres
Converses
Oliver Sacks a Legacy Libraries (novembre 2023)
DECEMBER READS - SPOILERS - An Anthropologist on Mars a The Green Dragon (gener 2015)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Favourite Books (2)
Chemistry (1)
Allie's Wishlist (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 50
- També de
- 41
- Membres
- 38,389
- Popularitat
- #470
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 793
- ISBN
- 789
- Llengües
- 26
- Preferit
- 149