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The Island of the Colorblind

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Oliver Sacks

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The Island of the Colorblind is a 1997 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks about color blindness in the Micronesian Atoll of Pengelab. It is published in the United Kingdom as The Island of the Color-blind. The second half of the book is devoted to the mystery of Lytico-Bodig disease in Guam.
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Oliver Sacks

Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He received his education and suffered at first, as he and his brother entered a boarding school without the knowledge of his family, then he went to St. Paul's School in London, and received his education until he obtained a Bachelor's degree in organology and biology, and completed his studies to obtain a master's in order to qualify himself to practice medicine, Then he left England to Canada and then to the United States, which was a positive step towards a completely different career path from what he was accustomed to. He was a professor of neuroscience at the New York University of Medicine, and then he took a number of positions in a number of universities for medicine, and he wrote many books that got bestsellers, and then did a number of studies on a group of cases of people who suffer from neurological disorders, and he got He was honored on the anniversary of his death for his clear and distinguished contributions in supporting music therapy and the effect of this music on the human brain. Oxford University awarded him an honorary doctorate in civil law. D is a large number of awards that testify to his knowledge and excellence in his medical field.

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