Awakenings
Synopsis
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
- कॉपीराइट:
- 1990 Oliver Sacks
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307834096
- Publisher:
- Knopf Canada
- Date of Addition:
- 2015-11-24T00:52:45Z
- भाषा:
- English
- श्रेणी:
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.