Awakenings

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Title:

Awakenings

Author:

Sacks, Oliver, 1933-

ISBN:

9780330320917

Personal Author:

Sacks, Oliver, 1933-

Edition:

Picador edition.

Publication Information:

London : Pan Books, 1991, c1990.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 408 p. [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: London : Duckworth, 1973.

Rev. ed. first published: New York : HarperPerennial, 1990.

Subject Term:

Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease -- Case studies.

Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications -- Case studies.

Dopa -- Therapeutic use -- Case studies.

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"Awakenings ... is the ... story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness 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 ... case histories of his patients, their lives, and the ... transformations that went with their reintroduction to a changed world."--Back cover.

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