This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive 'awakening' effect they experienced forty 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. Now hailed as a medical classic, Awakenings was first published in 1973 and won the Hawthornden Prize of that year. It has since ...
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This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive 'awakening' effect they experienced forty 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. Now hailed as a medical classic, Awakenings was first published in 1973 and won the Hawthornden Prize of that year. It has since inspired a TV documentary, radio and stage plays and a major feature film. For this revised edition the author has written much new material, including a section about Awakenings on stage and screen. 'It makes you aware of what a knife-edge we live on' Doris Lessing 'Oliver Sacks is . . . passionate, enquiring, generous, imaginative and supremely literate' New York Times 'Compulsively readable . . . a brilliant and humane book' A. Alvarez, Observer 'Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, it is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance . . . A work of genius' Washington Post
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