Awakenings By Oliver Sacks
Jan 30, 2024 
Awakenings By Oliver Sacks free pdf download. Awakenings is a non-fiction piece that first appeared in 1973. It narrates the experiences of patients affected by the encephalitis lethargica epidemic that swept through the 1920s.
Sacks chronicles his late 1960s endeavors at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, New York, where he used the then-novel drug L-DOPA to temporarily alleviate the patients’ symptoms.
Oliver Sacks’s book, which clinched the Hawthornden Prize in 1974, has inspired a range of adaptations, including a play, two films, a ballet, and an opera. The 1991 updated edition incorporates new essays discussing the creation of several dramatic renditions of “Awakenings.”
Awakenings By Oliver Sacks Book Info:
- Publisher: Vintage
- Published: October 5, 1999
- ISBN: 9780375704055
- Pages: 117
- Size: 18.9
