by Oliver W. Sacks · Picador USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330523677
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In 'Awakenings', Oliver Sacks tells the story of twenty patients who, after being victims of the epidemic of encephalitis lethargica after the First World War, remained in a catatonic state for forty years. Motionless and speechless, these patients seemed oblivious to the outside world until Dr. Sacks administered L-DOPA, a new drug that temporarily awakened them from their long lethargy. This book is an extraordinary account of the human condition, illness, and the power of medicine to transform lives.
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
