![]() ![]() 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. 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. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. ![]()
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