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Oliver Sacks: Despertares (Paperback, Spanish language, 2005, Editorial Anagrama)

Paperback, 565 pages

Spanish language

Published Jan. 15, 2005 by Editorial Anagrama.

ISBN:
978-84-339-6219-5
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OCLC Number:
59010792

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This is the extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through a new drug L-DOPA administered by Dr Sacks. The stories he tells of these remarkable individuals are moving, often courageous and sometimes tragic. Through them he also explores the most general questions of health, disease, suffering, care and the human condition.

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Subjects

  • Medical
  • Fiction
  • Biography / Autobiography
  • Spanish: Adult Fiction
  • General
  • Medical History & Records
  • Medicine