Awakenings - by Oliver Sacks (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>With compassion and insight, the doctor who inspired the major motion picture "Awakenings" offers "a collection of astonishing case histories . . . A work of genius" ("The Washington Post"). of illustrations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Awakenings</i>--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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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 trancelike 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Sacks] opens to the reader doors of perception generally passed through only by those at the far borders of human experience".<P>-- The Boston Globe<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Oliver Sacks was a neurologist, writer, and professor of medicine. Born in London in 1933, he moved to New York City in 1965, where he launched his medical career and began writing case studies of his patients. Called the "poet laureate of medicine" by <i>The New York Times</i>, Sacks is the author of thirteen books, including <i>The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, </i> <i>Musicophilia</i>, and <i>Awakenings</i>, which inspired an Oscar-nominated film and a play by Harold Pinter. He was the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2008 for services to medicine. He died in 2015.
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