Awakenings

Oliver Sacks

eBook - 2013

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 dr...ug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Oliver Sacks
Online Access
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Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB00CNQ2NTK
Release Date5/29/2013
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307834096
Release Date5/29/2013