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Pros & Cons

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Pros

What ensues is a book that has a split personality. The rest of us were hooked by a fabulous book. Very recommended despite some minor flaws.

Oliver sacks is one of the. Greatest minds of our century, brings neurology to the layman in what can only be called art. Sacks provides an excellent picture of a truly enigmatic disorder that seems, by all accounts, to defy logic as we know it. The b... Read More

Awakenings is an amazing true story of the patients who suffered from encephalitis lethargica (or sleeping sickness) outbreak after the spanish flu outbreak in the early 1920s. The book is an exhaustive look at a number of patients who were infected b... Read More

Awakenings' is a fitting epitaph that does justice to these noble sufferers. As their doctor, caregiver, and friend, i wish more doctors would apply. Very revealing of the difference between an institution treating patients as a set of symptoms vs tre... Read More

With superior writing and many, many anecdotes and evidence. The language and analogies are clear.

Cons

This is one of the most disturbing and horrific books i have ever read. The author seems to continuously draw the attention away from the story and onto himself. The endless footnotes should be included in the text, not excluded from it.

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Quality

As described in his novel patients suffering from the sleeping sickness did show some improvements with the use of the drug

But it is this fantastic nature which gives this book its quality for the stories are indeed true

Sacks then generalizes the treatment of his patients before ending with the epilogue and postscript that provide updates to the... Read More

The book and the patients begin with the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica they survive however become severely parkinsonian ... Read More

Packaging/appearance

This book gave me a great insight into the the dreaded disease parkinsons

Carina chiquitoneuro 105professor kreher41913awakenings encephalitis lethargica was a sleeping sickness that had similar sympto... Read More

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This product had a total of 572 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 14 2022.