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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060973684
ISBN-139780060973681
eBay Product ID (ePID)1204869
Product Key Features
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAwakenings
Publication Year1990
SubjectNeurology, Emergency Medicine
FeaturesReprint
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMedical
AuthorOliver Sachs
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN90-004914
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal616.8/32
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisAwakenings--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. Book jacket.