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Articles, essays, and letters to the editor
This is a selected list of articles by Oliver Sacks that have been printed primarily in medical journals, magazines, and newspapers from 2000 - 2008 and which are available using electronic resources; for a complete list of Dr. Sacks's many publications, please visit his official website.
The links below connect to essays and articles by Oliver Sacks available through the Columbia University Libraries; they may only work for CU Libraries patrons and computers on Columbia University networks.
Sacks, Oliver. "The Lost Virtues of the Asylum." New York Review of Books, vol. 56, no. 14 (Sep. 24, 2009). |
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Sacks, Oliver. "Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers." New York Review of Books, vol. 55, no. 18 (Nov. 20, 2008). |
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Sacks, Oliver. "A Lucky Strike." Muse (Nov. 2008): 14.
- Note: The above excerpt also appeared in The New Yorker as "A Bolt from the Blue" , though it is not yet available electronically.
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Sacks, Oliver. "A Summer of Madness." The New York Review of Books, vol. 55, no. 14 (Sep. 25, 2008). |
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Sacks, Oliver. "[A.R. Luria:] The Man Who Woke Up in a Novel." New Scientist (Apr. 19, 2008): 51. |
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Sacks, Oliver. "A Journey inside the brain." New York Review of Books, vol. 55, no. 4 (Mar. 20, 2008). |
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Sacks, Oliver and Joy Hirsch. "A Neurology of Belief." Annals of Neurology (Feb. 2008): 129-130. |
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Sacks, Oliver. "Botanists on Park." The New Yorker (Aug. 13, 2007): 25-26. |
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Sacks, Oliver. "The Power of Music." Brain, vol. 129, no. 10 (Oct. 2006): 2528-2532. |
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Sacks, Oliver and Ralph M. Siegel. "Seeing is believing as brain reveals its adaptability" [letter to the editor]. Nature, vol. 441, no. 7097 (Jun. 29, 2006): 1048. |
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Sacks, Oliver. "Stereo Sue." The New Yorker (Jun 19, 2006): 64-73. |
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Sacks, Oliver. "Recalled to Life." The New Yorker (Oct 31, 2005). |
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Sacks, Oliver. "Remembering Francis Crick." New York Review of Books, vol. 52, no. 5 (Mar. 24, 2005). |
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Sacks, Oliver and Melanie Shulman. "Steroid Dementia: An Overlooked Diagnosis?" Neurology, 64 (Feb. 2005): 707-709.
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Sacks, Oliver. "On Memory." The Threepenny Review, volume 100 (Winter 2004). |
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Sacks, Oliver. "Speed." The New Yorker (Aug. 23, 2004): 60-69. |
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Sacks, Oliver. "Greetings From the Island of Stability." New York Times, (Feb. 8, 2004). |
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Sacks, Oliver. "The Mind’s Eye." New Yorker, vol. 79, no. 20 (Jul. 28, 2003): 48-59. |
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Steele, John C.; Caparros-Lefebvre, Dominique; Lees, Andrew J.; and Sacks, Oliver W. "Progressive Supranuclear Palsy And Its Relation To Pacific Foci Of The Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex And Guadeloupean Parkinson." Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, vol. 9 (2002): 39-54. |
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Sacks, Oliver. "Anybody Out There?" Natural History, vol. 111, no. 9 (Nov. 2002): 38-40. |
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Sacks, Oliver. "The Case of Anna H." New Yorker, vol. 78, no. 30 (Oct. 7, 2002): 62-73. |
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Cox, Paul Alan and Sacks, Oliver W. "Cycad Neurotoxins, Consumption of Flying Foxes, and ALS-PDC Disease in Guam." Neurology, no. 58 (March 2002): 956-959.
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Sacks, Oliver. "First Love." New York Review of Books, vol. 48, no. 5 (Mar. 29, 2001): 4-5. |
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Sacks, Oliver. "Henry Cavendish: An Early Case of Asperger’s Syndrome?" Neurology, vol. 57, no. 7 (Oct. 9, 2001): 1347. |
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Sacks, Oliver. "A Compulsive Collecting Behavior Following an A-com Aneurysmal Rupture" [letter to the editor]. Neurology, no. 56 (Apr. 2001): 1118. |
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Sacks, Oliver. Leaving Nirvana. New York Review of Books, vol. 48, no. 5 (Oct 18, 2001).
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