Awakenings

ISBN: 9780375704055
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Overview

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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Sacks, Oliver
  • ISBN: 9780375704055
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.90
  • Number Of Pages: 464
  • Publication Year: 1999

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