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Awakenings

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By the author of Seeing Voices', this is a narrative about the awakening of 20 patients from a zombie-like state they had suffered for over 40 years. A new drug meant the sleeping sickness disease was now treatable. Sacks tells the history, offers his own observations and the patients' reactions.

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Awakenings, Oliver Sacks

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1983
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Language
English
Publisher
PICADOR
Released
1983
Format
Paperback
Pages
352
ISBN10
0330269240
ISBN13
9780330269247
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Awakenings
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By the author of Seeing Voices', this is a narrative about the awakening of 20 patients from a zombie-like state they had suffered for over 40 years. A new drug meant the sleeping sickness disease was now treatable. Sacks tells the history, offers his own observations and the patients' reactions.