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The sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a bizarre rigid paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalised for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-DOPA and Parkinson's in the late 1960s and his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. Though many great doctors are also great writers, few can compare with Oliver Sacks for expressing the relation of medicine to the human spirit. --Rob Lightner
-- The Boston Globe
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The classic account of survivors of the sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War Iand 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 HatOne of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." The Washington PostAwakeningswhich inspired the major motion picture starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williamsis 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. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780375704055