I would like to get a contact address for the English neurologist Dr
Oliver Sachs.Either email, postal, or whatever is available

Hi lizzielane,

Here's a little information about Dr. Oliver Sacks:

"Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London, England (both of his parents
were physicians) and earned his medical degree at Queen's College,
Oxford. In the early 1960s, he moved to the United States and
completed an internship in San Francisco and a residency in neurology
at UCLA. Since 1965, he has lived in New York, where he is 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.
In 1966 Dr. Sacks began working as a consulting neurologist for Beth
Abraham Hospital, a chronic care facility in the Bronx where he
encountered an extraordinary group of patients, many of whom had spent
decades in strange, frozen states, like human statues, unable to
initiate movement. He recognized these patients as survivors of the
great pandemic of sleepy sickness that had swept the world from 1916
to 1927, and treated them with a then-experimental drug, L-dopa, which
enabled them to come back to life. They became the subjects of his
second book, Awakenings (1973), which later inspired a play by Harold
Pinter ("A Kind of Alaska ") and the Oscar-nominated Hollywood movie,
"Awakenings," with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams."
(...)
"His nine books, which also include Migraine (1970), A Leg to Stand On
(1984) , Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf (1990),
An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), and The Island of the Colorblind
(1996), have received numerous awards and have sold several million
copies worldwide in 22 languages. His most recent books are Oaxaca
Journal (2002) and Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
(2001)."
(...)
"Dr. Sacks has been awarded honorary doctorates from Georgetown
University, Tufts University, the College of Staten Island, New York
Medical College, the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Bard College,
Queen's University (Ontario), and the University of Turin."

Source: Oliver Sacks: Biography
http://www.oliversacks.com/about.htm 


Contact information for Dr. Oliver Sacks:

Dr. Oliver Sacks 
2 Horatio Street, 3G 
New York, NY 10014 
U.S.A. 

Fax: 212-633-8928 

Email: mail@oliversacks.com 

Source: Oliver Sacks: Contact
http://www.oliversacks.com/contact.htm


Search criteria:
"Oliver Sachs" neurologist
"Oliver Sachs OR Sacks" british neurologist


I hope this is helpful. If you have any questions regarding my answer
please don't hesitate to ask before rating it.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Request for Answer Clarification by lizzielane-ga on 12 Jan 2005 04:51 PST

Thanks for your efforts. Would you know the name of his autobiography
and where it can be bought. Regards
Lizzielane

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Clarification of Answer by rainbow-ga on 12 Jan 2005 05:11 PST

Hi lizzielane,

Dr. Oliver Sacks' autobiography is called 'Uncle Tungsten: Memories of
a Chemical Boyhood' and is available for purchase at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375704043/102-8646873-0600967

I hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Rainbow

I found the answer very helpful. Rainbow answered my question
promptly, and followed up with another answer, and had a pleasant
manner. I'm sorry that I have taken so long to give a rating. I'm new
to this internet game Lizzie lane