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020			_a9780060973681
050	1	0	_aRC382 _b.S23 1990
082	0	0	_a616.8 SAC
100	1		_aSacks, Oliver W.
245	1	0	_aAwakenings _c/ Oliver Sacks
250			_a1st HarperPerennial ed
260			_aNew York _b: HarperPerennial _c, 1990.
300			_axxxix, 408 p., [8] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 21 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: London : Duckworth, 1973.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [395]-401) and index.
520			_aAwakenings --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.
650		0	_aEncephalitic Parkinson's disease _x--Case studies
650		0	_aEncephalitis _x--Complications _x--Case studies
650		0	_aDopa _x--Therapeutic use _x--Case studies
942			_cMO
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