Cinquante ans de sommeil

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Oliver Sacks: Cinquante ans de sommeil (1987, Seuil)

Paperback, 409 pages

Published April 1, 1987 by Seuil.

OCLC Number:
25526009

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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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