On the Move
A Life
An impassioned, tender, and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is 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…
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February 23, 2016
OLIVER SACKS, referred by the New York Times as “the poet laureate of medicine,” spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Awakenings. His work was frequently published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and over the years, he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians.
Letters
Oliver Sacks
A Leg to Stand On
Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks
Everything in Its Place
Oliver Sacks
The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks
Neurotribes
Steve Silberman; Foreword by Oliver Sacks
On the Move
Oliver Sacks
Gratitude
Oliver Sacks
Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks
Oaxaca Journal
Oliver Sacks
The Mind's Eye
Oliver Sacks
Awakenings
Oliver Sacks
Migraine
Oliver Sacks