Awakenings

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Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism. A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after World War I and remained in a sleep state until given the drug L-Dopa. Also describes their lives, the transformation after awakening, and then describes parts of the film made from these case studies. -- Publisher descri…

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Title Statements

Full title :Awakenings / Oliver Sacks.

Summary

Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism.

A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after World War I and remained in a sleep state until given the drug L-Dopa. Also describes their lives, the transformation after awakening, and then describes parts of the film made from these case studies. -- Publisher description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1999.
Edition:1st Vintage books ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Vintage Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxix, 408 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0375704051, 9780375704055, 9780307398154, 0307398153
oclc:ocm41096302
LC Classification:RC382
Dewey Decimal:616.8/32

Subjects

Case studies Dopa -- Case studies. -- Therapeutic use Dopa -- Therapeutic use Encéphalite épidémique -- Études de cas… Epidemic encephalitis -- Case studies. … Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications Études de cas Levodopa -- therapeutic use Nonfiction Parkinson Disease, Postencephalitic Parkinsonisme postencéphalitique Parkinsonisme postencéphalitique -- Étu… Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease --…