Oliver Sacks, 1933-2015
Our favorite articles by the neurologist and writer, who died Sunday.
Witty Ticcy Ray
A patient with Tourette’s resents the treatment for it.
Being treated, as a doctor, is not all it’s cracked up to be.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
A man’s deteriorating mind can only make sense of the world through music.
The "Dark, Paradoxical Gift"
An Anthropologist on Mars
On Temple Grandin.
The Bull on the Mountain
A hike gone terribly wrong.
Memories of a scientific childhood.
On life with amnesia and the role that music plays in memory.
Self-experiments in chemistry.
My Own Life
Sacks on learning he had terminal cancer.
Dr. Sacks Looks Back [Audio]
A final conversation.