Sacks, Oliver
Sacks, Oliver ( 1933 – ),London-born neurologist and writer, educated at St Paul's School, the Queen's College, Oxford, and Middlesex Hospital; he has worked for many years as clinician and instructor in New York. Awakenings ( 1973 , the source of A Kind of Alaska by Pinter ) is a description, with vividly written case histories, of the reactions of post-encephalitic ‘sleeping-sickness’ patients of the 1916 – 17 epidemic to the new drug L-DOPA. Other works include Seeing Voices ( 1989 ), An Anthropologist on Mars ( 1995 ), and The Island of the Colour-Blind and Cycad Island ( 1996 ). The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was adapted by Peter Brook as L'Homme qui (Paris, 1993 : UK, The Man Who, 1994 ).
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