Awakenings

By the author of Seeing Voices, this is a narrative about the awakening of 20 patients from a zombie-like state they had suffered for over 40 years. A new drug ... » 

By the author of Seeing Voices, this is a narrative about the awakening of 20 patients from a zombie-like state they had suffered for over 40 years. A new drug meant the sleeping sickness disease was now treatable. Sacks offers his own observations and the patients' reactions. «