Awakenings

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Now hailed as a medical classic this extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920's, and the astonishing explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through new drug L-DOPA administered by Dr. Sacks. The stories he tells of these remarkable individuals are moving, often courageous and sometimes tragic. Through them he also explores the most general questions of health, disease, suffering, ca…

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Full title :Awakenings.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1991.
Edition:Rev. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Picador
Language:eng
Publication Date:1991.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxix, 408 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0330320912, 9780330320917, 0715627511, 9780715627518
oclc:ocm26315885
LC Classification:RC382
Dewey Decimal:616.83209

Subjects

Case Reports Case studies Dopa -- Case studies. -- Therapeutic use Dopa -- Therapeutic use Encéphalite épidémique -- Études de cas… Encephalitis epidemica Encephalitis, Viral -- drug therapy Epidemic encephalitis -- Case studies. … Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications L-Dopa Levodopa -- therapeutic use Neurology Parkinson Disease, Postencephalitic Parkinsonisme postencéphalitique Parkinsonisme postencéphalitique -- Étu… Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease --…