Oliver Sacks

Oliver W. Sacks (born July 9, 1933, London) is a neurologist who has written popular books about his patients. He considers it following the tradition of 19th-century "clinical anecdotes", literary-style informal case histories. His favorite example is Alexander Luria's The Mind of the Mnemonist.

Books

• Migraine (1970)
• Awakenings (1973)
• A leg to stand on (1984) (Sacks's own experience of losing the control of his legs after an accident)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)
• Seeing Voices (1989) (deaf culture and sign language)
• An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)
• The Island of the Colorblind (1997) (total congenital color blindness in an island society)
• ' (2001)
• Oaxaca Journal (2002)