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Awakenings / Oliver Sacks

By:

Sacks, Oliver W

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : HarperPerennial , 1990.Edition: 1st HarperPerennial edDescription: xxxix, 408 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780060973681

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

616.8 SAC

LOC classification:

RC382 .S23 1990

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	616.8 SAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1523823

Originally published: London : Duckworth, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-401) and index.

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.

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