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Author Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015

Title Awakenings / Oliver Sacks.

Edition First Vintage Books edition.
Publication Info. New York : Vintage Books, 1999.
©1990
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1612165~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  616.832 SAC    AVAILABLE
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Description xxxix, 408 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism.
A series of case studies of some of the people who developed a sleeping-sickness after World War I and remained in a sleep state until given the drug L-Dopa. Also describes their lives, the transformation after awakening, and then describes parts of the film made from these case studies. -- Publisher description.
Contents Awakenings -- Perspectives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-401) and index.
Subject Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease -- Case studies.
Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications -- Case studies.
Dopa -- Therapeutic use -- Case studies.
ISBN 9780375704055
0375704051
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