Description: The classic account of survivors of the sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I—and their return to the world after decades of “sleep.” • From the distinguished neurologist and the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat“One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." —The Washington PostAwakenings—which inspired the major motion picture starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams—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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EAN: 9780375704055
UPC: 9780375704055
ISBN: 9780375704055
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Book Title: Awakenings by Oliver W. Sacks
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Name: Awakenings
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Subject: Neurology, Emergency Medicine, United States / 20th Century, Neuropsychology
Publication Year: 1999
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Author: Oliver Sacks
Item Length: 8 in
Subject Area: Psychology, Medical, History
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
