Awakenings

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 Transformations Which Went With Their Reintroduction To A Changed World. From The Trade Paperback Edition.