![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.' opens to the reader doors of perception generally passed through only by those at the far borders of human experience.' — The Boston Globe'A masterpiece.' — W. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, 'awakening' effect. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. A new documentary looks back on the fascinating life of the neurologist. Alvarez, The ObserverAwakenings— 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. Professor Oliver Sacks, who was born in Britain but fled to America, inspired the doctor character in Awakenings. When the dose was raised, the first signs of awakening Sacks noted were a distinct. ![]() she sounded like an automated phone system. On a high dosage of the drug, these ghosts. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. And then, in 1969, neurologist Oliver Sacks treated a group of patients with L-DOPA, then an experimental drug. 'One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time.' — The Washington Post'Compulsively readable. ![]()
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