Awakenings
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-1996
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This is an extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive awakening effect they experienced 40 years later through new drug, L-DOPA.
Main title:
Awakenings / Oliver Sacks.
Author:
Edition:
Rev. ed.
Imprint:
London : Picador, 1991.
Collation:
xxxix, 408p., [8]p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed.: London: Duckworth, 1973.Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-401) and index.
ISBN:
9780330320917 (pbk)
Dewey class:
616.83209
Local class:
616.832
Language:
English
BRN:
1910536