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Awakenings / Oliver Sacks.

Title
Awakenings / Oliver Sacks.
Author
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
Publication
New York : E.P. Dutton, c1983.

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Description
338 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 20 cm.
Subject
  • Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease > Case studies
  • Epidemic encephalitis > Complications > Case studies
  • Dopa > Therapeutic use > Case studies
  • Dihydroxyphenylalanine
  • Encephalitis, Arbovirus
  • Parkinson Disease
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
Note
  • "A Dutton Obelisk paperback."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-323).
Contents
Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism -- The sleeping-sickness (Encephalitis Lethargica) -- After the sleeping-sickness (1927-67) -- Life at Mount Carmel -- The coming of L-DOPA -- Twelve years later -- Appendix: the electrical basis of Awakenings.
ISBN
0525482253
LCCN
^^^82074563^
OCLC
  • 9447650
  • SCSB-10447339
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library