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Awakenings

By Oliver , Sacks

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2013
ISBN
9780307834096, 9780375704055, 0375704051, 0307834093
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
3 MB (3470256 bytes)
Pages
464 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
HISTORY/United States/20th Century/;MEDICAL/Neurol

Description

Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.

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