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Neurologist, author Oliver Sacks dies
30 Aug 2015 21:56 #1
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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Peace to a man who brought much awareness and understanding to those suffering diseases of the mind.
Neurologist, author Oliver Sacks dies
John Riley and Elizabeth Weise, USATODAY 1:38 p.m. EDT August 30, 2015
J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling 16 hours ago
The great, humane and inspirational Oliver Sacks has died. He wrote this recently. That's a life well-lived.
Neurologist, author Oliver Sacks dies
John Riley and Elizabeth Weise, USATODAY 1:38 p.m. EDT August 30, 2015
Sachs was a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. However, it was as an author writing about science, medicine and the mind that he was known to millions.
Many of Sacks' books used case histories of his patients as the basis for essays about the brain, the mind and the human condition. His 1973 book Awakenings , about a group of encephalitis patients who briefly regained their mental faculties only to lose them again, inspired the 1990 Oscar-nominated film of the same name starring Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro.
In bestsellers The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985) and An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), Sacks wrote movingly and insightfully about his patients struggling to live with conditions such as autism, Tourette's syndrome and Parkinson's. Other books explored deafness, colorblindness, migraines, hallucinations and other phenomena.
J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling 16 hours ago
The great, humane and inspirational Oliver Sacks has died. He wrote this recently. That's a life well-lived.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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