Awakenings (Film Tie-In Ed)
Author(s): Oliver Sacks
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. Paperback
General Information
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- : Unknown Publisher
- : macmil
- : 01 January 1990
- : 01 January 2018
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Oliver Sacks
- : Paperback
- : 2
- : xxxix, 408