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Awakenings

Author Oliver Sacks
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale Oct 05, 1999 | 464 Pages | 978-0-375-70405-5
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  • Psychology > Cognitive Psychology > Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology > Physiological Psychology > Biological / Physiological Psychology
  • Psychology > Physiological Psychology > Introduction to Neuroscience
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Awakenings 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.Praise for Awakenings:"One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time."
--The Washington Post"Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book."
--A. Alvarez, The Observer"[Sacks] opens to the reader doors of perception generally passed through only by those at the far borders of human experience."
--The Boston Globe"A masterpiece."
--W. H. Auden
© Adam Scourfield
Dr. Oliver Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations. The New York Times referred to him as "the poet laureate of medicine," and over the years he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians. His memoir On the Move was published shortly before his death in August 2015. View titles by Oliver Sacks

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Awakenings 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.Praise for Awakenings:"One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time."
--The Washington Post"Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book."
--A. Alvarez, The Observer"[Sacks] opens to the reader doors of perception generally passed through only by those at the far borders of human experience."
--The Boston Globe"A masterpiece."
--W. H. Auden

Author

© Adam Scourfield
Dr. Oliver Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations. The New York Times referred to him as "the poet laureate of medicine," and over the years he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians. His memoir On the Move was published shortly before his death in August 2015. View titles by Oliver Sacks

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  • Awakenings
    Awakenings
    Oliver Sacks
    978-0-307-83409-6
    $13.99 US
    Ebook
    Vintage
    May 29, 2013
  • Awakenings
    Awakenings
    Oliver Sacks
    978-0-307-83409-6
    $13.99 US
    Ebook
    Vintage
    May 29, 2013

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