by Oliver Sacks, Jonathan Davis · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783499188787
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«Awakenings: Zeit des Erwachens. Das Buch zum Film» is Oliver Sacks's essay, published by Rowohlt Tb. in paperback (459 pages, in German).
After the epidemic of lethargic encephalitis, a group of patients remained catatonic for years. Sacks recounts how the administration of L-DOPA temporarily awakened them and the consequences of returning to a transformed world, in a narrative about identity, movement and consciousness.
This German edition from 1997 belongs to the rororo Sachbuch collection (no. 8878). The English original was published in 1973 and won the Hawthornden Prize.
For those interested in neurology, psychology and clinical narratives with a human perspective.
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
