With months to live, neurologist Oliver Sacks gave a master class on how to die
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Documentarian Ric Burns captures celebrated Jewish MD's final days in a meditation on Sacks's Orthodox youth, tumultuous career and acceptance of mortality. Film debuts Wednesday
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Oliver Sacks, Before the Neurologist's Cancer and New York Times Op-Ed
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Oliver Sacks' Final Essays on Consciousness, Attention, Memory, and Life
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
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Oliver Sacks Author Biography, Life and Books by Neurologist, oliver
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Oliver Sacks was a hero of mine
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The hat, the leg and the footnotes - John Ryle
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Essays of the Dying: Neurologist Oliver Sacks
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Awakenings' author, neurologist Oliver Sacks dies at 82, News
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Oliver Sacks dies at 82
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Oliver Sacks on hallucinations, neurological curiosities and his passion for understanding
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With months to live, neurologist Oliver Sacks gave a master class on how to die
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Altered States,” by Oliver Sacks
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How Oliver Sacks, a rebel and misfit, changed the world
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Oliver Sacks obituary, Oliver Sacks
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Oliver Sacks, eminent neurologist and Awakenings author, dies aged 82, Oliver Sacks