Awakenings (1973, rev. ed. 1990; ISBN 0-375-70405-1) is a non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks that tells of his experiences in 1969 using the then-new drug L-DOPA on patients of the 1920s sleeping sickness encephalitis lethargica. It was also the subject of a 1990 film of the same name starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.

1973 books