Oliver Sacks

Sacks turned neurological case histories into narrative portraits, bringing clinical knowledge into books such as Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. The stories follow how a condition changes a person's world, rather than stopping at a diagnostic label. Patients, care teams and literary shaping all belong in that history. His work offers a rich connection to examine critically, including who controls a medical story and how a reader comes to understand its subject.