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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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780307371058 ● Publisher Knopf Canada ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2554303 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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