Awakenings
By: Oliver Sacks.
Publisher: Summit Books
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease -- Case studies.; Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications -- Case studies.; Dopa -- Therapeutic use -- Case studies.
Description: Awakenings 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [320]-323.
Originally published: London : Duckworth, 1973.
Includes index.