Awakenings

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"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 t…

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Title Statements

Full title :Awakenings / Oliver Sacks.

Summary

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1990.
Edition:[New ed.]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Vintage Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1990.

The Physical Object

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

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0375704051, 9780375704055
oclc:ocn640515660
Dewey Decimal:616.832

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.

Subjects

Brain -- Case studies. -- Diseases Case studies Dopa -- Case studies. -- Therapeutic use Dopa -- Therapeutic use Encéphalite épidémique -- Études de cas Epidemic encephalitis Epidemic encephalitis -- Case studies Epidemic encephalitis -- Case studies. … Parkinsonisme postencéphalitique -- Étu… Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease --…