Oliver Sacks : the last interview and other conversations.

"An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readers. Oliver Sacks--called "the poet laureate of medicine" by the New York Times--illuminated the mysteries of the brain for a wide audience in a series o...

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Main Authors: Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 (Author)
Published: Melville House,
Publisher Address: Brooklyn :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: The last interview series
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Summary: "An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readers. Oliver Sacks--called "the poet laureate of medicine" by the New York Times--illuminated the mysteries of the brain for a wide audience in a series of richly acclaimed books, including Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and numerous The New Yorker articles. In this collection of interviews, Sacks is at his most candid and disarming, rich with insights about his life and work. Any reader of Oliver Sacks will find in this book an entirely new way of looking at a brilliant writer"--
Carrier Form: x, 100 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9781612195773
1612195776
Index Number: RC339
CLC: K835.616.2
Call Number: K835.616.2/S121-2
Contents: Editor's note -- Neurologist Oliver Sacks: Interview with Terry Gross, 'Fresh Air', October 1, 1987 -- An anthropologist on Mars: Interview with Charlie Rose, 'Charlie Rose', February 1995 -- Studs, Sacks, and left-handed skills: Interview with Studs Terkel, 'The Studs Terkel Program', 1995 -- Oliver Sacks on empathy as a path to insight: Interview with Lisa Burrell, 'Harvard Business Review', November 2010 -- The joy of aging: Interview with Tom Ashbrook, 'On Point', July 18, 2013 -- Dr. Sacks looks back: Interview with Robert Krulwich, recorded live at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, May 5, 2015.