249 pages
English language
Published 1974 by Doubleday.
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks
4 stars
(1 review)
This is the 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 a new drug L-DOPA administered by Dr Sacks. The stories he tells of these remarkable individuals are moving, often courageous and sometimes tragic. Through them he also explores the most general questions of health, disease, suffering, care and the human condition.
Subjects
- Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease -- Case studies.
- Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications -- Case studies.
- Dopa -- Therapeutic use -- Case studies.
- Dopa -- Therapeutic use.
- Encephalitis, Epidemic -- Drug therapy.
- Parkinsonism -- Drug therapy.