Author: Oliver Sacks
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0525482253
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0525482253
Awakenings
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. . . 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 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 Check Awakenings our best diet books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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