Awakenings
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Specialties, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Psychology, Neuropsychology, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
| Author: | Oliver Sacks | ISBN: | 9780307834096 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | May 29, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN: | 9780307834096 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | May 29, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
