SACKS BY SUBJECT


Botany

Island of the Colorblind: cycads (Guam, Rota)

Oaxaca Journal: All Chapters (ferns, tobacco, morning glory, chilies, chocolate, rubber, corn)

Cox, Paul Alan and Sacks, Oliver. Cycad neurotoxins, consumption of flying foxes, and ALS-PDC disease in Guam, Neurology 2202:58:956-959.

Chemistry/Science

Uncle Tungsten: All Chapters

Sacks, Oliver. Brilliant Light. The New Yorker, December 20, 1999, pp. 56-73.

Sacks, Oliver: Hard Times for Curious Minds, The New York Times, op-ed page, May 13, 1999.

Sacks, Oliver. Everything In Its Place. New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1999, pp. 126-130.

Sacks, Oliver. Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science. In Robert Silvers, ed., Hidden Histories of Science, pp. 141-187 (New York: New York Review of Books, 1995).

Sacks, Oliver. Remembering South Kensington. Discover, November 1993, pp. 78-80.

Sacks, Oliver. Humphry Davy: a poet-chemist. New York Review of Books, November 4, 1993, pp. 50-56.


Color

Island: Pingelap chapter

Mars: Ch. 1 The Colorblind Painter

Sacks, O., Wasserman, R.L., Zeki, S., and Siegel, R.M.: Sudden color-blindness of cerebral origin. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 1988.

Audio/Visual: The Mind Traveller: Island of the Colorblind


Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (mad cow)

Sacks, Oliver. Eat, Drink, and Be Wary, review of Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes. The New Yorker, April 14, 1997, pp. 82-85