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Title	:	Awakenings
Author	:	Oliver Sacks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	October 5th 1999 by Vintage (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Science. Psychology. Health. Medicine. Medical. Biology. Neuroscience

Awakenings

Oliver Sacks

Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 10263 Users | 476 Reviews

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Durant l'hiver 1916-1917 éclata une épidémie de « maladie du sommeil » (encéphalite léthargique) présentant les symptômes parkinsoniens les plus graves. Beaucoup de malades moururent ; d'autres s'enfoncèrent dans un état léthargique étrange et définitif -immobiles, souvent muets, emprisonnés dans un temps pétrifié.

Ces patients incurables, Oliver SACKS les retrouve plusieurs décennies après, dans un asile de la banlieue new-yorkaise où il travaille à partir du milieu des années 60.

En 1967 apparaît une drogue (la L-Dopa), qui a pour effet de réveiller ces patients ; ils se remettent à parler, à marcher, retrouvent le goût de vivre... mais certains sont en proie à des hallucinations, des délires paranoïaques, érotomaniaques. L'unité de leur personnalité se brise en une foule se « sous-moi », parfois effrayants, en lesquels ils ne se reconnaissent plus. Faut-il arrêter la L-Dopa ? Diminuer la dose ?

Ce sont les problèmes dramatiques auxquels Oliver Sacks sera confronté. Extrêmement émouvant dans le récit du destin de ces patients, le livre comporte aussi une réflexion théorique qui débouche sur des questions essentielles concernant la santé et la maladie, considérée non plus comme un corps étranger qu'on « attrape », mais comme un état du « soi », ayant sa propre logique.

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Original Title:	Awakenings
ISBN:	0375704051 (ISBN13: 9780375704055)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Hawthornden Prize (1974)

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This is the astonishing true story of a group of people aflicted with a severe 'sleeping' sickness who were awakened for a while by a drug called L Dopa. It is full of personal moments of extreem grief and happiness and wonder. It is a story of clinical experimentation and individual care and understanding.A very good film of it has also been made with Robin Williams as Oliver Sacks. I think, as usual, the book is better than the film, but the film gives a good feel for the story line if not

The crux of the book is the work Sacks began in the mid-1960s with dozens of post-encephalitic patients at Bronx's Beth Abraham hospital, then called the Bronx Home for Incurables and disguised here as Mount Carmel. These patients were infected in 1918 by the encephalitis lethargica virus, or sleepy sickness. (Not to be confused with the worldwide influenza pandemic of that same year.) Those who survived were able afterwards to lead normal lives for years and sometimes decades until they were

For viewers of the motion picture of the same name or those only familiar with Sacks' collections such as The Man Who Mistood His Wife for a Hat (1985), this book may come as a bit of a surprise. Published in 1973, Sacks was still very much writing as a professional neurologist and had not yet fully found his authorial voice. While still an interesting and thought-provoking tale, this book has much more the dryness, and critical apparati, of the academy.



My husband bought this book and he has great taste in books. I decided to read this for the challenge. Ive noticed there are a lot of books out now about disease. Its like the new fad. I have a condition called papilledma. Its not deadly, which I am blessed by GOD for that. I dont like reading about people suffering because I know how it feels. I have watched enough people be sick and I dont want to read about it. Thats my personal choice. But this book was very insightful.I am very blessed to

This is a fascinating and often very moving account of Sacks' famous experiments using a new-at-the-time dopamine medication to treat the "sleeping" victims of the encephalitis lethargica outbreak in the early 20th century. Excoriated at the time for cautioning on L-DOPA's "miraculous" nature, Sacks takes the reader on a case-by-case study detailing the medicine's effects on patients who had been virtually catatonic/comatose for decades. These case studies are startling, weird, disturbing, and

The crux of the book is the work Sacks began in the mid-1960s with dozens of post-encephalitic patients at Bronx's Beth Abraham hospital, then called the Bronx Home for Incurables and disguised here as Mount Carmel. These patients were infected in 1918 by the encephalitis lethargica virus, or sleepy sickness. (Not to be confused with the worldwide influenza pandemic of that same year.) Those who survived were able afterwards to lead normal lives for years and sometimes decades until they were