Awakenings

von Oliver Sacks

464 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The classic account of survivors of the sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I—and their return to the world after decades of “sleep.” •  From the distinguished neurologist and the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat“One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." —The Washington PostAwakenings—which inspired the major motion picture starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams—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.

• Themen: Medizin Medizinische Spezialgebiete Neurologie und klinische Neurophysiologie
• ISBN: 9780375704055
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.1999
• Größe: 205 x 134 mm
• Verlag: Random House LLC US