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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. Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital (now Beth Abraham Health Services) in the Bronx, New York. The treatment used the then-new drug L-DOPA. In 1982, Dr. Sacks wrote: The book inspired the 1982 play ''A Kind of Alaska'' by Harold Pinter, performed as part of a trilogy of Pinter's plays titled ''Other Places'', and a documentary television episode, the pilot of the British television programme ''Discovery''. It was also made into a 1990 Oscar-nominated film, ''Awakenings'' starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. The 1976 edition of the book is dedicated to the memory of poet W. H. Auden, and bears an extract from Auden's 1969 poem ''The Art of Healing'': Prior to his 1973 death, Auden himself wrote: "Have read the book and think it a masterpiece".〔Sacks, O. (1976), ''Awakenings'', Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, back cover blurb〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Awakenings (book)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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