Oliver Sacks

dokter asal Britania Raya

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.

Oliver Sacks
LahirOliver Wolf Sacks
(1933-07-09)9 Juli 1933
Cricklewood, London, Inggris
Meninggal30 Agustus 2015(2015-08-30) (umur 82)
Manhattan, New York City, Amerika Serikat
KebangsaanInggris
PendidikanThe Queen's College, Oxford
Dikenal atasSerangkaian buku non-fiksi tentang kasus-kasus di kalangan psikiatris dan pasien neurologi
ProfesiDokter, profesor, penulis, neurologis
InstitusiNew York University
Columbia University
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
University of Warwick
Little Sisters of the Poor

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  1. ^ Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf – Oliver W. Sacks. Diakses tanggal 24 August 2015. 
  2. ^ Sacks, Oliver (March 2002). Oaxaca Journal. National Geographic. ISBN 0792265211. 
  3. ^ Online version is titled "How much a dementia patient needs to know".

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  • 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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