Awakenings

By - SACKS, Oliver , Yücesoy, Erhun

Floor - Floor 2

Published - Vintage Books, New York, 1999

ISBN 10 - 0375704051

ISBN 13 - 9780375704055

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Dopa--Therapeutic use

Shelf No - 9

Call Number - 616.832 SAC

Physical Description - 1 online resource : illustrations

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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.

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