Celebrating the work of Dr. Oliver Sacks: neurologist and author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and more. 🧠📚
“The poet laureate of medicine.” New York Times
Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine.
He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
For more information about the Oliver Sacks Foundation, please visit www.oliversacks.com
To book tickets for the UK/Irish premiere of Ric Burns' award winning documentary 'Oliver Sacks: His Own Life' visit: www.altitude.film