Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks is a Neurologue considered born on July 9th, 1933 with London.

Professor with the College of Medicine Albert Einstein of consulting New York and doctor in many New Yorkean hospitals, it wrote several works on various clinical cases which it encountered during his career.

He is famous universally for his works on the studies of the behavior of individuals having undergone disorders with the lobes of their cerveau.
Accounts made up of a succession of anecdotes which it reports and analyzes, it makes thus accessible its conclusions near a general public not specialized.

Its book Awakenings will give place to a film of Penny Marshall in 1990 with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro (title French: the Awakening)

Biography

It achieved its studies of medicine at the university of Oxford and it exerts in the United States since 1965. August 1st

Books

Migraine (1970)
the Awakening (1973)
On a leg (1984) (in which he reports his personal experience after the loss of control of one of his legs following an accident)
the man who took his wife for a hat (1985)
Of the Eyes to hear: travel to the country of the deaf persons , (1989)
an Anthropologist over Mars (1995)
the island in black and white (1997)
Uncle Tungstène (2001)
Oaxaca Journal (2002)

External bonds

Biography in English
Card IMDB

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