The scientific community is reeling in the wake of the recent “bombshell” reporting that one of the greatest popular science writers of the modern era made up many of the details of the outlandish neurological cases he wrote about, the veracity of which were taken for granted in academic institutions, and by the public, to this point.
The New Yorker last week published an article about famed British neurologist and science writer Oliver Sacks, whom it describes as “one of the world’s most prominent neurologists and a kind of founding father of medical humanities—a discipline that coalesced in the seventies, linking healing with storytelling”.
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