[DOWNLOAD] "Awakenings" by Oliver Sacks ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Awakenings
- Author : Oliver Sacks
- Release Date : January 05, 1999
- Genre: Psychology,Books,Health, Mind & Body,Professional & Technical,Medical,History,United States,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 10867 KB
Description
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 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.