Awakenings (book)

Awakenings (book)

"Awakenings" (1973, rev. ed. 1990; ISBN 0-375-70405-1) is a non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks that chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s using the then-new drug L-DOPA on patients who were victims of the 1920s catatonic (encephalitis lethargica) at Beth Abraham Hospital (now Beth Abraham Health Services) in Bronx, New York.

"Awakenings" later inspired a play by Harold Pinter (“A Kind of Alaska”) and was also the subject of a 1990 Oscar-nominated film of the same name starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.


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