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Awakenings

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**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 Post* ** ** ** * *** * Awakenings—* 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 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 Author

Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, was a British neurologist residing in the United States, who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings, which was adapted into a film

Author

Oliver Sacks

ISBN

9780375704055

Pages

406

Publication Date

10-04-1999

Publisher

Vintage

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