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Oliver Sacks

Issue #0

Awakenings

Picador (1982)

0330269240

| Paperback

339 pages

€ 5.00 | Value: € 6.37

Dewey 616.8/32

LC Classification RC141 .E6

Genre

Science & Nature

Subject

Dopa
Epidemic Encephalitis
Medical / Emergency Medicine
Parkinson's Disease
Postencephalitic Parkinson's Disease

Plot

By the author of Seeing Voices', this is a narrative about the awakening of 20 patients from a zombie-like state they had suffered for over 40 years. A new drug meant the sleeping sickness disease was now treatable. Sacks tells the history, offers his own observations and the patients' reactions.