![]() ![]() It has since inspired a TV documentary, radio and stage plays and a major feature film. Now hailed as a medical classic, Awakenings was first published in 1973 and won the Hawthornden Prize of that year. The stories he tells of these remarkable individuals are moving, often courageous and sometimes tragic. This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive 'awakening' effect they experienced forty years later through a new drug, L-DOPA, administered by Dr Sacks. ![]()
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