![]() ![]() I only read about half the epilogue because it was diverging into literally a page of footnotes for a page of actual main text and I also couldn't deal with Sacks writing another "thus" to start a sentence. ![]() Did he have the patients best interests in mind or was he just trying to make a name for himself at the expense of the defenseless? Beyond that, the writing style was dull, so when the anecdotes about the patients started to seem a little repetitive, it bogged down. Repeatedly throughout the book, he makes note of saying he felt treatment might be a bad idea, yet does it anyway. ![]() In one case, Sacks (the author of the book and the doctor conducting the experiments/research) actually hid dosage of the treatment drug in a patient's food because the patient didn't want to try the treatment. ![]() On a moral level, a few patients actually benefited in the long term from treatment. That's not to say the book was without problems. The second amazing part is the stories about those affected by the disease and getting some insight into the incredible mysteries of the human mind. I've heard of the former, but other than knowing the movie inspired by the book exists, I had no idea of the latter. The spanish influenza was long before my time as was the attack of "sleepy sickness" that followed closely on its heels. ![]()
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