Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks
Sacks di Festival Buku Brooklyn 2009
Lahir	Oliver Wolf Sacks (1933-07-09)9 Juli 1933 Cricklewood, London, Inggris
Meninggal	30 Agustus 2015(2015-08-30) (umur 82) Manhattan, New York City, Amerika Serikat
Kebangsaan	Inggris
Pendidikan	The Queen's College, Oxford
Dikenal atas	Serangkaian buku non-fiksi tentang kasus-kasus di kalangan psikiatris dan pasien neurologi
Profesi	Dokter, profesor, penulis, neurologis
Institusi	New York University Columbia University Albert Einstein College of Medicine University of Warwick Little Sisters of the Poor
Penghargaan (2013) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (en) (2005) Emperor Has No Clothes Award (en) (2003) Bodley Medal (en) (2001) Lewis Thomas Prize (en) (1993) George Polk Award (en) (1988) Oskar Pfister Award (en) (1974) Hawthornden Prize (en) honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (en) Commander of the Order of the British Empire (en) Guggenheim Fellowship (en)

Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE FRCP (9 Juli 1933 – 30 Agustus 2015) adalah seorang pakar neurologi, naturalis, sejarawan sains dan penulis asal Inggris. Lahir di Inggris dan banyak belajar disana, ia menjalani kariernya di Amerika Serikat.

• Migraine. 1970. 
• Awakenings. 1973. 
• A Leg to Stand On (1984) (Sacks's own experience, after his accident in Norway, of losing all awareness of his left leg.) ISBN 978-0-684-85395-6
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985) ISBN 0-671-55471-9
• Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf (1989)^[1] ISBN 0-520-06083-0
• An Anthropologist on Mars (1995) ISBN 0-679-43785-1 (First ed.)
• The Island of the Colorblind (1997) (First section about total congenital colour blindness in an island society; second section about Guam disease on Guam.) ISBN 978-0-676-97035-7
• Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001) (first autobiography) ISBN 0-375-40448-1
• Oaxaca Journal (2002) ISBN 978-0-307-94744-4 (travelogue of Sacks's ten-day trip with the American Fern Society to Oaxaca, Mexico, 2000)^[2]
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007) ISBN 978-1-4000-4081-0
• The Mind's Eye (2010) ISBN 978-0-307-27208-9
• Hallucinations (2012) ISBN 978-0-307-95724-5
• On the Move: A Life (2015) (second autobiography) ISBN 978-0-385-35254-3
• Gratitude (2015) (published posthumously) ISBN 978-0451492937
• NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman (2015) (Sacks wrote the foreword) ISBN 978-1-583-33467-6
• Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2016) ISBN 978-1612195773 (a collection of interviews)
• The River of Consciousness (2017) ISBN 978-0-345-80899-8
• Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales (2019)
• "The machine stops : the neurologist on steam engines, smart phones, and fearing the future". Personal History. The New Yorker. 94 (48): 28–29. 11 February 2019. 
• "Telling : the intimate decisions of dementia care". A Neurologist's Notebook. The New Yorker. 95 (2): 26–27. 4 March 2019. ^[3]

• Simon Callow, "Truth, Beauty, and Oliver Sacks" (review of Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales, Knopf, 2019, 274 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVI, no. 10 (6 June 2019), pp. 4, 6, 8. Oliver Sacks wrote in his public farewell in The New York Times: "Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure." (p. 8.)

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• Situs web resmi
• Saluran Oliver Sacks di YouTube
• "Oliver Sacks interviewed on Web of Stories". Web of Stories. 
• Multimedia:
  • Oliver Sacks di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
  • Oliver Sacks di TED
  • (Inggris) Oliver Sacks di Charlie Rose
  • Kemunculan di C-SPAN
  • "Appearances". Science Friday. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 5 September 2015.  Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)
  • "Appearances". Radiolab. 
  • "Appearances". NPR. 
  • Wells, Katherine; Lichtman, Flora (2 December 2010). "Oliver Sacks" (video). Science Friday. Desktop Diaries. National Public Radio. Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks explains what his desk means to him 
  • Simon, Joanna (1989). "Watch this Oliver Sacks interview" (video). MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour. PBS (dipublikasikan tanggal 1 September 2015). 
  • Interview with Dempsey Rice, documentary filmmaker, about Oliver Sacks film
• Publications:
  • (Inggris) Karya atau profil mengenai Oliver Sacks di perpustakaan (katalog WorldCat)
  • Oliver Sacks di Curlie (dari DMOZ)
  • (Inggris) Oliver Sacks - Berita dan komentar di The New York Times
  • "Oliver Sacks articles". The New York Review of Books.