#oliver-sacks

#oliver-sacks

The neurologist Oliver Sacks's early books, including "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," established his reputation as unique literary voice and the avatar of a new medical outlook that considered a patient's life story and sense of self as being crucial to the treatment of a range of ailments. Yet, as Rachel Aviv reports in a rich and nuanced piece for this week's issue, Sacks privately expressed guilt about some of what he had written.