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Awakenings

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New York
Kiadó: HarperPerennial
Kiadás helye: New York
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 408 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 21 cm x 14 cm
ISBN: 0-06-097368-4
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"A masterpiece." "A remarkable book."
-W. H. Auden —Harold Pinter
It was in his hook Awakenings that Oliver Sacks first demonstrated his gifts as "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (New York Times Book Review). Awakenings is the remarkable account of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen in a decades-lorig sleep, these men and women were given up as hopeless until Dr. Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks presents the moving case histories of these individuals, the stories of their lives, and the extraordinary transformation they underwent with his treatment. This definitive new edition, which includes an essay on the making of the film of Awakenings, is a passionate exploration of "the most general questions of health, disease, suffering, care and... Tovább

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; , ^ , ¦/ ^ i r, I'.-.i i. W'iii^'ii«
1, ¦: '^-iLl^li SCIENCE
"A masterpiece." "A remarkable book."
-W. H. Auden —Harold Pinter
It was in his hook Awakenings that Oliver Sacks first demonstrated his gifts as "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (New York Times Book Review). Awakenings is the remarkable account of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen in a decades-lorig sleep, these men and women were given up as hopeless until Dr. Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks presents the moving case histories of these individuals, the stories of their lives, and the extraordinary transformation they underwent with his treatment. This definitive new edition, which includes an essay on the making of the film of Awakenings, is a passionate exploration of "the most general questions of health, disease, suffering, care and the human condition."
Oliver Sacks was born in London and educated in London, Oxford, California, and New York. He is professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and the author of Migraine (1970, rev ed. 1985), A Leg to Stand On (1984), The Man Who Mistook His Wijejor a Hat (1985), and Seeing Voices (1989). Vissza

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