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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. Book jacket.
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Awakenings, Oliver Sacks
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- Released
- 1990
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- Title
- Awakenings
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Oliver Sacks
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 408
- ISBN10
- 0060973684
- ISBN13
- 9780060973681
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Health & Medicine, Psychological Topics, Psychology, Science, Medicine, Neuroscience
- Original title
- Awakenings
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
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- 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. Book jacket.