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Gratitude

Pages
64
Published
2001
Language
English

Synopsis

Oliver Sacks, a renowned neurologist, faced his own mortality with remarkable grace. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he reflects on a life that continued to inspire him, exploring how to live fully in the face of death. This book is his profound meditation on gratitude and finding meaning even as his time drew to a close.

About the author

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate 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...