Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Through our Virtual Screening Room, you can rent films curated by the Coolidge team, while helping to support the Coolidge during this unprecedented time.
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well as nearly two dozen interviews with close friends, family members, colleagues and patients, and archival material from every point in his life, this film is the story of a beloved doctor and writer who redefined our understanding of the brain and mind.
Plus, we were delighted to host a virtual Q&A with renowned surgeon, writer, and public health leader Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, who is featured in the film, and with executive director of the Oliver Sacks Foundation Kate Edgar. The conversation was moderated by Sean B. Carroll, PhD. Watch here or at the embedded video below:
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