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Awakenings.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Science Studies.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Parkinson's Disease and Parkinsonism 3
- The Sleeping-Sickness (Encephalitis Lethargica) 12
- The Aftermath of the Sleeping-Sickness (1927-67) 20
- Life at Mount Carmel 24
- The Coming of L-DOPA 28
- Awakenings
- Frances D. 39
- Magda B. 67
- Rose R. 74
- Robert O. 88
- Hester Y. 95
- Rolando P. 116
- Miriam H. 128
- Lucy K. 140
- Margaret A. 148
- Miron V. 161
- Gertie C. 165
- Martha N. 170
- Ida T. 176
- Frank G. 180
- Maria G. 183
- Rachel I. 188
- Aaron E. 190
- George W. 198
- Cecil M. 202
- Leonard L. 203
- Perspectives
- Perspectives 223
- Awakening 235
- Tribulation 243
- Accommodation 265
- A History of the Sleeping-Sickness 319
- 'Miracle' Drugs: Freud, William James, and Havelock Ellis 323
- The Electrical Basis of Waakenings 327
- Beyond L-DOPA 333
- Parkinsonian Space and Time 339
- Chaos and Awakenings 351
- Awakenings on Stage and Screen 367.
- ISBN:
- 9780375704055
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