AwakeningsAwakenings--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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User Review - homeschoolmimzi - LibraryThingI like this author a lot, and the premise of the book was interesting, but Sacks being a neurologist infuses his stories w/a bit too many technical terms, and it soon starts to read like a medical record after awhile. Read full review
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User Review - William345 - LibraryThingThe crux of the book is the work Sacks began in the mid-1960s with dozens of post-encephalitic patients at Bronx's Beth Abraham hospital, then called the Bronx Home for Incurables and disguised here ... Read full review
Contents
PARKINSONS DISEASE AND PARKINSONISM | 3 |
FRANCES D | 39 |
PERSPECTIVES | 223 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Awakenings |
| Authors | Oliver Sacks, Oliver W. Sacks |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 16 Apr 2004 |
| ISBN | 0375704051, 9780375704055 |
| Length | 408 pages |
| Subjects | › Medical / Neurology Psychology / Neuropsychology |
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