Word: elkhonon
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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With Grandin and other subjects, Sacks has refined the case history into an art form. As his friend and colleague New York City neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg puts it, "Oliver has salvaged the uniqueness of patients from statistical averaging." Indeed, each essay seems like an extended house call from an old-fashioned family doctor. There is also Sacks' open, encompassing style that welcomes the reader into his esoteric world. "A neurologist's life is not systematic," he writes, "but it provides him with novel and unexpected situations, which can be windows, peepholes, into the intricacy of nature-an intricacy that...
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