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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]
Awakenings was produced by Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, who first encountered Sacks's book as undergraduates at Yale, and optioned it a few years later. Released on December 12, 1990, the film was a critical and commercial success, earning $108.7 million on a $29 million budget.
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899.Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.
His treatment of those patients became the basis of his 1973 book Awakenings, [3] which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated feature film, in 1990, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. His numerous other best-selling books were mostly collections of case studies of people, including himself, with neurological disorders. He also ...
Awakenings, a 1990 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks; Awakening, a 2008 novella by Judith Berman; Awakening, a Sweep novel by Cate Tiernan; Awakening, the U.S. title of Les Mal Partis, a 1950 novel by Sébastien Japrisot; Awakening, a young adult novel by Robin Wasserman in the Chasing Yesterday series
Encephalitis lethargica is an atypical form of encephalitis.Also known as "sleeping sickness" or "sleepy sickness" (distinct from tsetse fly–transmitted sleeping sickness), it was first described in 1917 by neurologist Constantin von Economo [2] [3] and pathologist Jean-René Cruchet. [4]
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.
The Awakening (Carroll novel) or The Quantum Prophecy, a 2006 novel by Michael Carroll; The Awakening (Chopin novel), an 1899 novel by Kate Chopin; The Awakening (Smith novel), a 1991 Vampire Diaries novel by L. J. Smith "The Awakening" (short story), a 1942 story by Arthur C. Clarke; The Awakening, the third and final arc of the Ben Drowned ...