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And how are you, Dr. Sacks?, a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks, Lawrence Weschler

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And how are you, Dr. Sacks?, a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks, Lawrence Weschler

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

And how are you, Dr. Sacks?

Oclc number

1082334621

Responsibility statement

Lawrence Weschler

Sub title

a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks

Summary

Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for The New Yorker. Sacks' book, Awakenings, had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. The two remained close friends across the next thirty years. As Sacks was dying, he urged Weschler to return to an abandoned project: a profile of Sacks and his work. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist, whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Part I: Getting to know him / 1. Going for a row -- 2. Early childhood, a harrowing exile, cruel Judaism, homosexuality, and a mother's curse -- 3. Conversations with Bob Rodman and Thom Gunn in California -- 4. A visit to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and lunch at a Japanese restaurant -- 5. Oliver's cousins Abba Eban and Carmel Ross -- 6. From California to New York (1962-1967) -- 7. The migraine clinic (1966-1968) -- 8. The Awakenings drama (1968-1976) -- 9. On rounds with Oliver at Beth Abraham -- 10. Auden and Luria -- 11. A visit with Oliver to London, including conversations wtih Eric Korn, Joanthan Miller, and Colin Haycraft -- 12. On rounds with Oliver at the little sisters and Bronx State -- 13. Ward 23 -- 13. John the touretter -- Part II: How he was (the massing months) / 15. The blockage begins to break (1982-1983) -- 16. The leg book shambles toward publication as Oliver hazards a neurology of the soul (the first half of 1984) -- 17. The publication, at long last, of the leg book; its reception; Sancho launches into his profile and is stopped (the second half of 1984) -- Part III: Afterwards / 18. Dear friends (1985-2005) -- 19. A digression on the question of reliability and the nature of romantic science -- 20. His own life (2005-2015) -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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And how are you, Doctor Sacks

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