by Oliver Sacks · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433974051
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«Despertares» is Oliver Sacks's medical essay on encephalitis lethargica and the drug L-Dopa, published by Editorial Anagrama in the Compactos collection (600 pages, in Spanish).
The work recounts the story of twenty patients admitted to Mount Carmel Hospital in New York, survivors of the encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the 1920s, who temporarily awoke forty years later after receiving L-Dopa. Through their cases, Sacks addresses identity, memory and consciousness, and reflects on the fragility of human life.
The book originally appeared in 1973 and was awarded the Hawthornden Prize that year. This revised edition includes new material by the author, including a section on the adaptation of the work to film and theatre. It is volume 548 of the Compactos collection.
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
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