Ebook: Awakenings
Author: Sacks Oliver
- Tags: HISTORY/United States/20th Century/, MEDICAL/Neurology/, PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY/Neuropsychology/, Electronic books
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Language: English
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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 transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.
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