Gratitude
A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life.
In January 2015, Oliver Sacks was diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer, and he shared this news in a New York Times essay that inspired readers all over the world: "I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.... Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."
Gratitude consists of four essays that originally appeared in The New York Times, accompanied by a foreword that describes the occasion of each chapter. The foreword is written by Billy Hayes, Oliver Sacks's partner, and Kate Edgar, his long time…
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November 24, 2015OLIVER 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