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Awakenings

Paperback • 1999 • English

Awakenings

By Oliver Sacks

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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 tra...Show more

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9780375704055

Publisher

VINTAGE

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Awakenings

Format

Paperback

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