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Awakenings
Author(s)Oliver Sacks
PublisherPenguin, Harmondsworth, 1976
Pages344pp
KeywordsParkinson's disease ; Drugs ; Mental disorder.
AnnotationThe case histories of survivors of an epidemic of sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica, which gives rise to Parkinsonism) who were `awakened' after 50 years by the drug L-dopa.
Accession NumberCPA-930504003
ClassmarkCR6: LLD: E

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