Oliver Sacks (1933–2015)
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Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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 de Oliver Sacks
Awakenings, A Leg to Stand On, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Seeing Voices (1984) 129 copias
Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2016) 73 copias
Der Tag, an dem mein Bein fortging. Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte (2008) 8 copias
De wereld der onnozelen 3 copias
On the Move 3 copias
Oliver Sacks 3 Books Collection Set (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Hallucinations, Awakenings) (2020) 3 copias
Journal of Consciousness Studies (Controversies in Science & the Humanities, Volume 1, No. 2 (1994)) (1994) 2 copias
Oliver Sacks Reader 2 copias
Emicrania - Tomo I 1 copia
Comprende la psicología 1 copia
Emicrania - Tomo II 1 copia
Neurologia e anima (articolo) 1 copia
My Own Life 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Fantasmas en el cerebro : los misterios de la mente al descubierto (1998) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 1,930 copias
The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound (1971) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 221 copias
A Glorious Accident: Understanding Our Place in the Cosmic Puzzle (1993) — Contribuidor — 220 copias
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contribuidor — 216 copias
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuidor — 116 copias
Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Detective Novel (Benny Cooperman Mysteries) (2005) — Epílogo — 89 copias
Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return (2008) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 54 copias
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Contribuidor — 53 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Sacks, Oliver Wolf
- Otros nombres
- Sacks, Oliver W.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1933-07-09
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2015-08-30
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Londen, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cancer
- Lugares de residencia
- Londen, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Oxford, Oxfordshire, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
New York, New York, VS - Educación
- University of London
The Queen's college University of Oxford
University of California
St Paul's School, London, UK
Middlesex Hospital - Ocupaciones
- neuroloog
- Relaciones
- Eban, Abba (cousin)
Lynn, Jonathan (cousin)
Sacks, Jonathan (nephew)
Hayes, Bill (partner)
Miller, Jonathan (friend, #1)
Aumann, Robert (cousin) - Organizaciones
- 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) (mostrar todos 7)
University of Warwick (visiting professor) - Premios y honores
- 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 - Biografía breve
- 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.
Miembros
Debates
Oliver Sacks en Legacy Libraries (noviembre 2023)
DECEMBER READS - SPOILERS - An Anthropologist on Mars en The Green Dragon (enero 2015)
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