Oliver Sacks: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: NPR - Oliver Sacks Observes the Mind Through Music. Oct 15, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 26, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jul 05, 2026
Add new Web site: The British Psychological Society - Oliver Sacks: 'I don't feel proud of anything' | BPS. Dec 13, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Ockham's Razor - The brilliant mind of Oliver Sacks. Oct 16, 2025
Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Oliver Sacks. Aug 14, 2025
Add new Web site: CBC Radio - Oliver Sacks on how an unconventional childhood shaped his love of science. Jun 25, 2025
Add new Web site: The Montgomery Fellows Program - Oliver Sacks. May 15, 2025
Add new Web site: Harvard Business Review - Life�s Work: Oliver Sacks. Mar 22, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Bookclub - Oliver Sacks. Jan 06, 2025
Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. Aug 16, 2024
Add new Web site: NPR - Oliver Sacks Observes the Mind Through Music. Jul 05, 2024
First paragraph modernization. May 01, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Medicine Through the Lens of Humanity: Exploring the Legacy of Oliver Sacks, the Storyteller Neurologist. Apr 01, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature - Oliver Sacks (1933�2015). Jan 24, 2024
Links added. Sep 21, 2023
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Oliver Sacks (Profile). May 12, 2023
Media added. Aug 22, 2022
Inaccurate cross-reference removed. Jun 06, 2022
Added the documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. Sep 23, 2020
Add new Web site: Academy of Achievement - Oliver Sacks. Oct 01, 2018
Added the book The River of Consciousness. Nov 27, 2017
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Oliver Sacks, Neurologist Who Wrote About the Brain�s Quirks, Dies at 82. Apr 18, 2017
Clarified that Sacks did not have liver cancer. He had an ocular melanoma that later metastasized to his liver. Sep 16, 2015
He died on August 30, 2015. Aug 30, 2015
Noted the release of the memoir On the Move. Apr 28, 2015
Added photograph. Mar 01, 2013
Noted publication of Hallucinations. Dec 20, 2012
Noted publication of Oliver Sacks's book The Mind's Eye (2011). Oct 19, 2011
Add new Web site: Official Site of Oliver Sacks. Jan 09, 2011
New article added. Jul 15, 2009
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