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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. [1] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital (now Beth Abraham Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing) in the Bronx, New York. [2]
Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. [2] Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career.
Awakenings is a 1990 American biographical drama film written by Steven Zaillian, directed by Penny Marshall, and starring Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Stormare and Max von Sydow. It is based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 nonfiction memoir of the same title. The film tells the story ...
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Awakenings is an opera in two acts composed by Tobias Picker, with a libretto by Aryeh Lev Stollman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Based on Awakenings , Oliver Sacks' 1960's chronicle of his efforts to help the victims of an encephalitis epidemic , [ 3 ] the opera was commissioned by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis , and premiered on June 5, 2022.
An example of a readable book [b]. Each of the nine countries covered by the library, as well as Reporters without Borders, has an individual wing, containing a number of articles, [1] available in English and the original language the article was written in. [2] The texts within the library are contained in in-game book items, which can be opened and placed on stands to be read by multiple ...
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America is a 2017 book about the history of same-sex marriage in the United States by Nathaniel Frank. It was published by Belknap Press , an imprint of Harvard University Press .