![]() ![]() ![]() Auden called “a masterpiece,” is a passionate exploration of the most general questions of health, disease, suffering, care, and the human condition. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of these individuals, the stories of their lives, and the extraordinary transformations they underwent with treatment. Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, “awakening” effect. Frozen in a decades-long sleep, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Migraine was still in the medical canon, but here I took off in all directions–with allegory, philosophy, poetry, you name it.” - Oliver SacksĪwakenings is the remarkable account of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. “Awakenings came from the most intense medical and human involvement I have even know, as I encountered, lived with, these patients in a Bronx hospital, some of whom had been transfixed, motionless, in a sort of trance, for decades. ![]()
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