Author | : Oliver Sacks |
File Size | : 45,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 04 March 2011 |
ISBN | : 9780307371058 |
Pages | : 464 pages |
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks Book PDF Summary
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.