Oliver Sacks

"Educated at St Paul's School, The Queen's College, Oxford, and the Middlesex Hospital, prior to further work and training in the United States. Following a period of research in neurochemistry and neuropathology he returned to clinical work, interesting himself particularly in migraine, and subsequently in behavioral development and disorders in children, neurological disorders in the elderly, the effects of limb injury and amputation, phantoms, tics, Tourette's syndrome, and the care of post-encephalitic patients described in Awakenings . He is especially interested in the rehabilitation of patients with neurological injuries and disorders.

"He is also the author of A Leg to Stand On , Migraine and Seeing Voices . Dr Sacks is Clinical Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine [New York] and Consultant Neurologist for Beth Abraham Hospital and Little Sisters of the Poor, in New York." [combined publisher's bumpf, in Awakenings , 1973, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , 1985]

"I'm a lonely person, not at ease socially. I'm terrified of crowds and hate being in groups. I have my clinical work. I'm fond of botany and I have a passion for swimming." --Oliver Sacks (in an interview with Andrew Duncan, Radio Times , 16-22 November 1996).

"Dr Oliver Sacks is the diffident, charming, but undoubtedly odd neurologist who thinks of himself as a reporter from the far borders of human experience and who was thrust unwillingly into fame when Robin Williams played him in a film based on his book, Awakenings , about how he administered L-Dopa to sleeping-sickness patients and miraculously cured them, albeit temporarily. The book was also the basis of a play by Harold Pinter, A Kind of Alaska , while his subsequent work The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was turned into a stage play by Peter Brook. --Andrew Duncan (in Radio Times , 16-22 November 1996).

The Psychology of Consciousness by Robert E.Ornstein
(1972, non-fiction, reportage, neurology...W.H.Freeman, San Franciso, California, US, hbk)
"Good introduction to right-brain/left-brain functioning of human consciousness." --Henry W.Targowski.

Oliver Sacks's Awakenings: Reshaping Clinical Discourse by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
(© 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996... The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for Literature and Science, all rights reserved)
"This is an article in an academic paper (or virtual paper) called Configurations ." --Joan Ubeda.