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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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- Released
- 1983
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- Title
- Awakenings
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Oliver Sacks
- Publisher
- PICADOR
- Released
- 1983
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0330269240
- ISBN13
- 9780330269247
- 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
- Description
- 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.