https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/jocolibrary/rss/search?query=%22Sacks%2C%20Oliver%22&searchType=author&view=groupedRSS for NodeWed, 11 Mar 2026 13:26:46 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1415096https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1415096Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1415096036BKSeven Paradoxical Talesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780679756972/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocm34359253https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C749061https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C749061Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/749061036BKTales of Music and the Brainenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400040810/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocm85692744https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C238652https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C238652Wed, 31 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/238652036BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780684853949/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocm22773478THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS • In his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of Awakenings and "poet laureate of medicine” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain extraordinary new skills.
“Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness.”—The Guardian
Featuring a new preface, Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
In Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.”]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6180225https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6180225Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6180225980EBOOKAnd Other Clinical Talesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593466681/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1415446https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1415446Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1415446036BOOK_CDSeven Paradoxical Talesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781480530362/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn847688535https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1388374https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1388374Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1388374036BKA Memoirenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385352543/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn900565064https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1430938https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1430938Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1430938036BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780451492937/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn923548020https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1418776https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1418776Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1418776036LPRINTA Lifeenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781410483485/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn912382068NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “wonderful memoir” (Los Angeles Times) about a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer, a man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human. • “Intimate.... Brim[s] with life and affection.” —The New York Times

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks writes about the passions that have driven his life—from motorcycles and weight lifting to neurology and poetry. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists—W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick—who have influenced his work.]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2116814https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2116814Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2116814980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385352550/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death.
“A series of heart-rending yet ultimately uplifting essays….A lasting gift to readers." —The Washington Post
“It is the fate of every human being,” Sacks writes, “to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.” Together, these four essays form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life.
“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. 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.”
—Oliver Sacks
“Oliver Sacks was like no other clinician, or writer. He was drawn to the homes of the sick, the institutions of the most frail and disabled, the company of the unusual and the ‘abnormal.’ He wanted to see humanity in its many variants and to do so in his own, almost anachronistic way—face to face, over time, away from our burgeoning apparatus of computers and algorithms. And, through his writing, he showed us what he saw.”
—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2420490https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2420490Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2420490980EBOOKEssaysenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780451492968/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc= Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
American Academy of Neurology: Excerpt from “Anton’s Syndrome Accompanying Withdrawal Hallucinosis in a Blind Alcoholic” by Barbara E. Swartz and John C. M. Brust from Neurology 34 (1984). Reprinted by permission of the American Academy of Neurology as administered by Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research.
American Psychiatric Publishing: Excerpt from “Weir Mitchell’s Visual Hallucinations as a Grief Reaction” by Jerome S. Schneck, M.D., from American Journal of Psychiatry (1989). © 1989 by American Journal of Psychiatry. Reprinted by permission of American Psychiatric Publishing a division of American Psychiatric Association.
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.: Excerpt from “Heautoscopy, Epilepsy and Suicide” by P. Brugger, R. Agosti, M. Regard, H. G. Wieser and T. Landis from Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, July 1, 1994. Reprinted by permission of BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. as administered by the Copyright Clearance Center.
Cambridge University Press: Excerpts from Disturbances of the Mind by Douwe Draaisma, translated by Barbara Fasting. © 2006 by Douwe Draaisma. Reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press.
Canadian Psychological Association: Excerpt from “Effects of Decreased Variation of the Sensory Environment” by W. H. Bexton, W. Heron and T. H. Scott from Canadian Psychology (1954). © 1954 by Canadian Psychological Association. Excerpt from “Perceptual Changes after Prolonged Sensory Isolation (Darkness and Silence)” by John P. Zubek, Dolores Pushkar, Wilma Sansom and J. Gowing from Canadian Psychology (1961). © 1961 by Canadian Psychological Association. Reprinted by permission of Canadian Psychological Association.
Elsevier Limited: Excerpt from “Migraine: From Cappadocia to Queen Square” in Background to Migraine, edited by Robert Smith (London: William Heinemann, 1967). Reprinted by permission of Elsevier Limited.
The New York Times: Excerpts from “Lifting, Lights, and Little People” by Siri Hustvedt from The New York Times Blog, February 17, 2008. Reprinted by permission of The New York Times as administered by PARS International Corp.
Oxford University Press: Excerpt from “Dostoiewski’s Epilepsy” by T. Alajouanine from Brain, June 1, 1963. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press as administered by Copyright Clearance Center.
Royal College of Psychiatrists: Excerpt from “Sudden Religious Conversion in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy” by Kenneth Dewhurst and A. W. Beard from British Journal of Psychiatry 117 (1970). Reprinted by permission of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Scientific American: Excerpt from “Abducted!” by Michael Shermer from Scientifi c American 292 (2005). © 2005 by Scientifi c American, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Scientific American.
Vintage Books: Excerpts from Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov, © 1947, 1948, 1949,...]]>https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C705911https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C705911Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/705911980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307967350/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1273003https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1273003Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1273003036BOOK_CDenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781480530379/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn854373670https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1946726https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1946726Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 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00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1394485036BOOK_CD[a Life]enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780804192316/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn903006507https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1236290https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1236290Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1236290036LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781410457318/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn823085248https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1201355https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1201355Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1201355036BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307957245/MC.GIF&client=913-495-2400&type=xw12&oclc=ocn769425353https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1388962https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S36C1388962Mon, 31 Jan 2011 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