"They've forgotten what it is to be alive." Based on a true story told by Dr Oliver Sacks, Awakenings focuses with exquisite ...

The late author's correspondence shows a restless intellect roving far beyond what we saw in his books 'Awakenings' and 'The ...

The neurologist and writer communicated with a wide network of friends and professional acquaintance. He never lost the sense ...

Six decades of the neurologist’s correspondence have been expertly woven into a collection of humanistic observations, ...

Oliver Sacks fell into ... in London offered to take on his book “Awakenings,” based on nine case studies of his encephalitis lethargica patients, Sacks seems to have been thrilled but wary.

Oliver Sacks was a compulsive letter-writer. From 1985, when he became famous for The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, he ...

The life and work of Oliver Sacks have been well documented and ... Those patients (made famous in the book and then the movie “Awakenings”), frozen in a catatonic state, some for more than ...

When Oliver Sacks died in 2015, the world lost a polymathic scientist, a man of great energy and infinite curiosity. The physician and author of “Awakenings” (1973), “The Man Who Mistook His ...

Oliver Sacks was a compulsive ... a ballet and then an opera. But Awakenings was entirely ignored by the medical world, who seem to have distrusted Sacks and even accused him of fabrication.