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| | HighBeam Encyclopedia - Sacks, Oliver Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | A creative medical thinker, Sacks is known for an approach to medicine that humanizes the patient and is concerned with the psychological, moral, and spiritual elements of illness and treatment. |
 | | His books, which include Awakenings (1973), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), and The Island of the Colorblind (1997), describe case histories of people with neurological and perceptual disorders, and exhibit a fascination with the creativity of the human mind as it copes with such disabilities. |
 | | Bibliography: See his memoir of his boyhood, Uncle Tungsten (2001). |
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