Awakenings (Picador Books) by OLIVER SACKS epub fb2 djvu
Author: | OLIVER SACKS |
Title: | Awakenings (Picador Books) |
ISBN: | 0330269240 |
ISBN13: | 978-0330269247 |
Other Formats: | rtf txt lrf lrf |
Pages: | 352 pages |
Publisher: | Picador; 2Rev Ed edition (1982) |
Language: | English |
Size EPUB version: | 1597 kb |
Size FB2 version: | 1501 kb |
Category: | Health, Fitness & Dieting |
Subcategory: | Diseases & Physical Ailments |
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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 transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.