Awakenings (Film Tie In Ed)

Author: Oliver Sacks

Stock information

General Fields

Price : $0.00 AUD
ISBN : 9780330320917
Publisher : Unknown Publisher
Imprint : macmil
Contained items :
Weight (g) :
Publication date : 01 January 1990
Produced in :
RRP : 0.0
Availability date :
Out of print date : 01 January 2018
Agency :
Product Type : books

Special Fields

color :
Author : Oliver Sacks
Series :
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 2
Illustrator :
Language :
Dewey classification :
Library of Con LOCSH :
Pages : xxxix, 408
BIC subject :
Illustrations :
Colour :
Session :
Deck :
Store Notes :
Translator :
Signed :

9780330320917

Description

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

Your Bookstore.io logo