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The following list is a selection of critical works concerning Dr. Oliver Sacks’s writing. The criticism comes from writers in the humanities, sciences, and medicine alike, and it offers, variously, praise for, negative criticism of, and insight into Dr. Sacks’s work.
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| Cassuto, Leonard. "Oliver Sacks: The P.T. Barnum of the Postmodern World?" American Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 2 (Jun. 2000): 326-333. |
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Couser, G. Thomas. "The Cases of Oliver Sacks: The Ethics of Neuroanthropology." Bloomington: Poynter Center, 2001. |
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Diedrich, Lisa. "Breaking Down: A Phenomenology of Disability." Literature and Medicine, no. 20.2 (Fall 2001). |
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Hahn, Robert A. "Between Two Worlds: Physicians as Patients." Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4. (Aug. 1985): 87-98. |
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Halliwell, Martin. Romantic Science and the Experience of Self: Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 1999. |
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Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker. "Oliver Sack's Awakenings: Reshaping Clinical Discourse." Configurations, vol.1, no. 2, (Spring 1993): 229-245. |
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Howarth, William. "Oliver Sacks: The Ecology of Writing Science." Modern Language Studies, vol. 20, no. 4 (Autumn 1990): 103-120. |
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Hunter, William. "Your friendly neighborhood neurologist: Dr. Oliver Sacks and the cultural view of physicians." Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 28, no. 4 (April 1, 1995): 93. |
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Locke, Richard. "Bookshelf: Studying synapses and souls." Review of An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks, Wall Street Journal, Mar. 2, 1995. |
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