Oliver Sacks is a physician, best-selling author, and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.
He is the author of ten books, including Musicophilia, Awakenings, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat — and was the first to receive honors as a Columbia University Artist, in recognition of his contributions to the arts.
Oliver Sacks Mini Videos
Dr. Sacks on topics from synesthesia to Alzheimer's to growing up in a house full of books and music. New videos added frequently.
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Awakenings
“One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time. . . . Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. . . . A work of genius.”
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