Awakenings
Author(s): Oliver W Sacks
"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.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Random House Inc
- : 0.408
- : 01 January 1999
- : 202mm X 132mm X 25mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : illustrations
- : 464
- : 616.832
- : en
- : Paperback / softback
- : Oliver W Sacks