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In Remembrance: Oliver Sacks

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C C Offline
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituari...tuary.html

EXCERPT: Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who has died aged 82, wrote perceptive accounts of intriguing neurological disorders in books such as Awakenings (1973) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985); away from his work he was variously a biker, weightlifter and wild swimmer. Sacks’s writing fascinated and inspired writers and film directors and showed how patients who are isolated by disease can still retain their dignity and humanity.

Sacks’s subjects were people afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations; people who had lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; people unable to recognise common objects; Tourette’s syndrome sufferers stricken with violent tics and grimaces and unable to stop themselves shouting obscenities; sufferers from Asperger’s syndrome who cannot relate to other people but often possess uncanny artistic or mathematical talents....

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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/au...iver-sacks

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/arts/o...-life.html

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/...the-doctor

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/...ver-sacks/
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Yazata Offline
I really liked Oliver Sacks' books. I thought that not only were they fascinating from a human perspective, they were philosophically instructive as well.

I'm sorry to hear that he's gone.
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Mr Doodlebug Offline
Hello again scivillagers!

Sacks. Epic.
He was one of the authors I read in my teens.
He combined science with an empathetic interest in the people that science can help.
Inspirational.
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C C Offline
Good to see you again, Captain. This would be a great time for you and elte and CH returning in full force, since I'm trying (unsuccessfully so far) to do a disappearing act of my own for about a month. Smile
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elte Offline
I think it's been quite a few months since I've seen a lot of that starting crew here.  Now we still need CH to make an appearance.

I was sad when I heard that Oliver Sacks had terminal C.  I recall him talking about face blindness, which reminded me of how some folks have a not too different tendency to mix up people's names.
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