Oliver Sacks

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  • Julie Walsh University of Warwick
  • Julie Walsh University of Warwick

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v1i1.69

Abstract

Renowned neurologist and author Dr Oliver Sacks is a visiting professor at the University of Warwick as part of the Institute of Advanced Study. Dr Sacks was born in London. He earned his medical degree at the University of Oxford (Queen’s College) and the Middlesex Hospital (now UCL), followed by residencies and fellowships at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). As well as authoring best-selling books such as Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, he is clinical professor of neurology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. Warwick is part of a consortium led by New York University which is building an applied science research institute, the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). Dr Sacks recently completed a five-year residency at Columbia University in New York, where he was professor of neurology and psychiatry. He also held the title of Columbia University Artist, in recognition of his contributions to the arts as well as to medicine. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Association of British Neurologists, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU for more than 25 years. In 2008, he was appointed CBE.

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Author Biography

Julie Walsh, University of Warwick

Dr Walsh’s research interests are in the fields of psychoanalysis, social theory and psychosocial studies. She is currently completing a monograph entitled Narcissism and Its Discontents (Palgrave, 2014), and developing a new interdisciplinary project on shame and sociability

http://warwick.ac.uk/shameproject

 

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Photo: Elena Seibert www.elenaseibert.com

More information on Oliver Sacks' work is available at www.oliversacks.com

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Published

2013-10-01

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