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Awakenings

This book tells the extraordinary story of a group of twenty patients admitted in the Hospital Mount Carmel in New York

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This book tells the extraordinary story of a group of twenty patients admitted in the Hospital Mount Carmel New York, survivors of the great epidemic of encephalitis lethargica, which reached dimensions planetary in the twenties of the last century, and the astonishing and sudden to «awaken» who underwent forty years later thanks to the doctor Oliver Sacks, that he administered l-dopaa drug's recent appearance at the time in the market. Anecdotes to account of the series of patients, each of them with a remarkable personality, are always moving, testify to the value with which they faced disease and sometimes have tragic connotations.
Awakeningsalready considered a classic of the medical literature, it appeared in 1973 and won the Hawthornden Prize that year. Since then, it has inspired a television documentary, radio scripts, plays and a remarkable film. The author has written much new material for this revised edition, including a section about Awakenings on the stage and the screen.

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