US EditionThe Lies and Falsifications of Oliver Sacks
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The New Yorker magazine has published a great deal about Oliver Sachs. He is an American neurologist who became famous for books in which he described the stories of his patients with rare neurological conditions. Sachs developed a reputation as a physician who knew how to treat illness and became one of the most important figures in the medical humanities. At the same time, the accuracy of his stories was sometimes questioned during his lifetim…
With his case stories Oliver Sacks has become the best-selling author. Now it is proven that they were partly faked. Why this does not bother our author.
The Lies and Falsifications of Oliver Sacks
In a recent bombshell piece for the New Yorker (archive), Rachel Aviv explored the personal journals of the celebrated neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. What she found was shocking: he had fabricated and embellished some of his most well-known work — like Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Sacks himself referred to his “lies” and “falsification” in journal entries. But, in his journal, Sacks wrote that “a sense of hideous …
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