- Gratitude, Aging, Death, Neurologists
"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the all-too-close presence of his own death, and how to live out the months that [remained] in the richest and deepest way possible"--
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Contemplative, character-led, earnest and spare.
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Oliver Sacks
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 55
- Publisher
- Picador, Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A., Anagrama
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781509822805
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Oliver Sacks (1933–2015) was a British neurologist, writer, and science communicator, known for making neurology accessible to the general public through his works. He spent much of his career in the United States, where he worked as a physician and university professor. His writings focused on real neurological cases and on the relationship between the brain, the mind, and human experience. His work was distinguished by combining scientific research with a close and humanistic perspective toward his patients. --- Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) fue un neurólogo, escritor y divulgador científico británico, conocido por acercar la neurología al público mediante sus obras. Desarrolló gran parte de su
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