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Awakenings

By Oliver Sacks

By Oliver Sacks

By Oliver Sacks

By Oliver Sacks

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Oct 05, 1999 | ISBN 9780375704055

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May 29, 2013 | ISBN 9780307834096

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    About Awakenings

    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.

    About Awakenings

    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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    About Oliver Sacks

    Dr. Oliver Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations. The New York Times referred to him as “the… More about Oliver Sacks

    About Oliver Sacks

    Dr. Oliver Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations. The New York Times referred to him as “the… More about Oliver Sacks

    Product Details

    Category: Psychology | 20th Century U.S. History

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 05, 1999 | 464 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375704055

    Category: Psychology | 20th Century U.S. History

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    May 29, 2013 | 464 Pages | ISBN 9780307834096
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