Oliver Sacks

A Leg to Stand On, by Oliver Sacks, is a book about Sacks himself. Sacks depicts the story of his self-induced disability, and the mental/physical barriers he faced within recovery, and acceptance. Sacks broke down this process into seven steps: the mountain, becoming a patient, limbo, quickening, Solvitur Ambulando, convalescence, and understanding. Along with the physical and mental barriers he faced, there were many macro/micro contextual level issues throughout the book. These issues included

Oliver Sacks' "Stinks and Bangs" is a very interesting story. The author, Oliver Sacks, explains briefly about his motivation and passion towards the sciences. In the story, Sacks begins to talk about his early influences through his Uncle Dave. According to Sack, " Now I longed to have a lab of my own-not like Uncle Dave's bench, not the family kitchen, but a place where I could do chemical experiments undisturbed. (pg.3)" This quotation implies that Sacks is starting to develop his own interests

British neurologist and popular author Oliver Sacks died today at age 82 in his New York City home. Sacks was a Professor of Neurology at the New York University School of Medicine and a beloved writer whose works included collections of case studies on neurological disorders, spanning from the neuroscience of face blindness and catatonia to that of music and love. WHAT DID OLIVER SACKS DO? Sacks frequently incorporated musings on his own maladies into his books, such as in Migraine, The Mind’s

In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, Oliver Sacks, explores many different stories of people who have brain dysfunctions. Divided into four parts; losses, excesses, transports, and The World of the Simple. Oliver Sacks illustrates the lives of people with mental incapabilities, hyper-functions, retardation, and a mental world. “Losses” deals with nine people whose brains have an inability of some sort. The first three stories are the largest pieces of the story

Book review: ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat’ by Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, named after Sacks patient Dr P, is a book by Neurologist Dr Oliver Sacks, discussing different types of neurological dysfunction with case studies to explain these in further detail The first part of the book ‘Losses’ is broken down into 9 chapters each focusing on a different loss. I have split these into two sections, loss of neurological function, and loss of physical function. Loss

Oliver Sacks learned, at the age of 81, that he had multiple metastases in the liver. A previous tumor in his eye had metastasized, which caused this rare relapse of cancer. Seemingly a death sentence to many, Sacks took this opportunity to reflect on life, write several books, and looks at the end of the life of one of his favorite philosophers for encouragement. David Hume, one of Sacks’ favorite philosophers, was terminally ill. Like Hume, Sacks took time before his death to complete an autobiography

well as in the clinical tales of Dr. Oliver Sacks. Both of these doctors have very similar and diverse relationships with multiple patients

The Man who mistook his Wife For a hat by Oliver Sacks is a riveting tales of cases experienced by neurologist Oliver Sacks. The book is dived in to four sections; losses, excesses, transports and world of the simple. Each section of the book details varying neurological phenomena while giving both Sacks and the patients view. Sacks’ was able to use detailed vocabulary for the different characters. Sacks’ theme presented to be to be awae of not only ythe case but the patienets background stiry. Through

and thoughts. The Mind lets an individual understand things but the brain is in charge of sending the signals to the mind. Oliver Sacks in “The Mind’s Eye” uses the case studies of John Hull, Zoltan Torey, and Lusseyran to show that the mind and brain both

and awakenings are both medical breakthroughs, but are yet both the same in some areas and then different in other areas. The movie awakenings is about a doctor named Oliver sacks who is helping out a patient who has Parkinson's disease and is in a frozen state that allows him not to be able to understand people how we do. Dr. Sacks ended up finding out about a drug called L-Dopa that then allows the patient with parkinson's to come out of his frozen state. He then gives the drug to the patient with