Awakenings / Oliver Sacks
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : HarperPerennial , 1990.Edition: 1st HarperPerennial edDescription: xxxix, 408 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780060973681
- 616.8 SAC
- RC382 .S23 1990
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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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