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Awakenings (book)
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Awakenings (book)
Awakenings
is a 1973
non-fiction book
by
Oliver Sacks
. It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s
encephalitis lethargica
epidemic. Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital (now
Beth Abraham Health Services
) in the
Bronx
,
New York
. The treatment used the then-new drug
L-DOPA
.
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