{"personal_name": "Oliver W. Sacks", "title": "(Sacks, Oliver W.)", "alternate_names": ["Oliver Wolf Sacks", "Oliver W. Sacks"], "name": "Oliver Sacks", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "source_records": ["amazon:9750825748", "ia:huoxingshangdere0000sake", "amazon:1501279629", "ia:awakeningsdasbuc0000sack", "amazon:1480530379", "amazon:8433977881", "ia:przebudzenia0000sack", "ia:migraneevolution0000sack", "amazon:2757837842", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-01-29", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.13.20150123.full.mrc:119337121:1031", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-03-17", "amazon:6077720240", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.11.20150123.full.mrc:837060875:856", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2024-01-26:P9-BNV-720", "bwb:9780307834102"], "photos": [8186972, 6457061], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Oliver Sacks (1933\u20132015) was a British neurologist, writer, and science communicator, known for making neurology accessible to the general public through his works. He spent much of his career in the United States, where he worked as a physician and university professor. His writings focused on real neurological cases and on the relationship between the brain, the mind, and human experience. His work was distinguished by combining scientific research with a close and humanistic perspective toward his patients.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nOliver Sacks (1933-2015) fue un neur\u00f3logo, escritor y divulgador cient\u00edfico brit\u00e1nico, conocido por acercar la neurolog\u00eda al p\u00fablico mediante sus obras. Desarroll\u00f3 gran parte de su carrera en Estados Unidos, donde ejerci\u00f3 como m\u00e9dico y profesor universitario. Sus escritos se centraron en casos neurol\u00f3gicos reales y en la relaci\u00f3n entre el cerebro, la mente y la experiencia humana. Su trabajo destac\u00f3 por combinar la investigaci\u00f3n cient\u00edfica con una perspectiva cercana y humanista hacia sus pacientes."}, "birth_date": "9 July 1933", "key": "/authors/OL217344A", "links": [{"title": "Oliver Sacks, M.D., Author, Neurologist | Official Web Site", "url": "https://www.oliversacks.com", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "BookBrainz", "url": "https://bookbrainz.org/author/14d9878b-0aeb-49d5-9670-8ddc120bf31e", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "MusicBrainz", "url": "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5dabb41f-da95-426f-be70-73f4af22a0dd", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q258662", "viaf": "54167025", "isni": "0000000081324605", "bookbrainz": "14d9878b-0aeb-49d5-9670-8ddc120bf31e", "musicbrainz": "5dabb41f-da95-426f-be70-73f4af22a0dd", "goodreads": "843200", "imdb": "nm0755312", "lc_naf": "n50015212", "librarything": "sacksoliver", "opac_sbn": "CFIV031905", "youtube": "UCAV8cRQzDrcGh43MGuLxZyg", "gnd": "120512866"}, "death_date": "30 Aug 2015", "latest_revision": 32, "revision": 32, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-03T15:21:12.855653"}}