{"id":70724,"date":"2002-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/famed-physician-author-oliver-sacks-to-speak-at-uri\/"},"modified":"2002-11-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-25T00:00:00","slug":"famed-physician-author-oliver-sacks-to-speak-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/11\/famed-physician-author-oliver-sacks-to-speak-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed physician & author Oliver Sacks to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tMedia Contact: Jan Wenzel, 874-2116
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\nKINGSTON, R.I. — November 25, 2002 — As a physician and writer Oliver Sacks is concerned with the link between the body and the mind and the way in which the whole person adapts to various neurological conditions. Sacks will address the neurological basis of identity at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Tuesday, Dec. 3. His talk, part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s ongoing Honors Colloquium, will begin at 7 p.m. in Room 271 of the Chafee Social Science Center at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus. <\/p>\n

Sacks was born in 1933, the son of two physicians, in London. He earned his medical degree at Queen\u2019s College, Oxford. In the early 1960s, he moved to the United States and completed an internship in San Francisco and a neurology residency at UCLA. Since 1965, he has lived in New York where he is a clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, adjunct professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine, and consultant neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor. <\/p>\n

While working as a consulting neurologist in 1966 for Beth Abraham Hospital, a chronic care facility in the Bronx, Sacks treated an extraordinary group of patients. The patients became the subject of his book Awakenings, which inspired a Harold Pinter play and an Oscar-nominated movie starring Robert DiNiro and Robin Williams. <\/p>\n

Many of the patients had spent decades in strange, frozen states, unable to initiate movement. Recognizing these patients as survivors of the great pandemic of sleeping sickness that had swept the world from 1916 to 1927, he treated them with the then-experimental drug L-dopa which enabled them to come back to life. <\/p>\n

In another bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, the physician describes patients struggling to live with conditions such as Tourette\u2019s Syndrome, autism, musical hallucination, and schizophrenia. <\/p>\n

His books have been used widely in universities in courses on neuroscience, writing, ethics, philosophy, and sociology. They have also inspired artists working in forms as varied as poetry, essay, documentary, drama, painting, dance, cinema, and fiction. <\/p>\n

His nine books include the most recent Oaxaca (2002) and Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001). <\/p>\n

Major sponsors for the colloquium series are 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Honors Program, The 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation, Theta Chi Fraternity, The Providence Journal, the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, the Joan Irvine Smith and Athalie R. Clarke Foundation, and the 溏心vlog免费B站 President\u2019s Office. Additional sponsors include 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Offices of the Provost and the dean of Arts and Sciences, College of Nursing, Student Entertainment Committee, the Multicultural Center, the John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Alumni Association, the Department of Communications\/News Bureau and Matritech.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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