Awakenings
By: Oliver Sacks.
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease -- Case studies; Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications -- Case studies; Dopa -- Therapeutic use -- Case studies
Description: A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after World War I and remained in a sleep state until given the drug L-Dopa. Also describes their lives, the transformation after awakening, and then describes parts of the film made from these case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-401) and index.
Originally published: London : Duckworth, 1973.