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From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, and infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life.
3) Gratitude
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote a ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life continued to enthrall him even as he faced the all-too-close...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient... The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings --the account of his long-dormant patients' miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly...
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