Awakenings / Oliver Sacks.

By:

Sacks, Oliver, 1933-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Picador, 1991.Edition: Rev. edDescription: xxxix, 408p., [8]p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780330320917 (pbk.) :
0330320912

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DDC classification:

616.83209 20

LOC classification:

HUY LT

Awards:

Hawthornden Prize 1973.

Summary: This is an extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive awakening effect they experienced 40 years later through new drug, L-DOPA.

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Previous ed.: London: Duckworth, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-401) and index.

This is an extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive awakening effect they experienced 40 years later through new drug, L-DOPA.

Hawthornden Prize 1973.

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