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    "annotation": "<p><span>Having inspired the major motion picture, Awakenings is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after WWI. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men &amp; women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, awakening effect. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives &amp; the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.</span></p>",
    "description": "<p><span>Having inspired the major motion picture, Awakenings is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after WWI. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men &amp; women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, awakening effect. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives &amp; the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.</span></p>",
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