TY - JOUR T1 - On the move: a life by Oliver Sacks JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol DO - 10.1136/pn-2023-003707 SP - pn-2023-003707 AU - Neil Watson AU - Kathryn Knight Y1 - 2023/03/16 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/early/2023/03/16/pn-2023-003707.abstract N2 - The Edinburgh Neurology Book Club recently read the late Professor Oliver Sacks’ autobiography, On the Move: A Life. Many of us have read (and reviewed1 2) his works. We wanted to learn about the man himself. He did not disappoint us.This is an unflinchingly honest memoir from a singular character. As his schoolteacher put it, ‘Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far’. He was many things: English, Jewish, an expat in the USA, homosexual and mostly celibate, harrowed by contemporary attitudes (his mother wished he ‘had never been born’) and laws (same-sex relations between UK men were only partially legalised in 1967). He was a record-breaking powerlifter, a motorbike fanatic, a recovered amphetamine addict, a lifelong wild swimmer and prosopagnosia sufferer. Besides these, he was perhaps the most famous neurologist of all time.Sacks’ career was … ER -