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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Asleep Asleep Molly Caldwell Crosby Another fascinating foray into medical history from the author of The American Plague In 1918, a world war was raging, and a lethal strain of influenza was circling the globe. In the midst of all thi… OL15179290W
Asleep Asleep Molly Caldwell Crosby Crosby, acclaimed author of "The American Plague," explores the frightening history of a long forgotten disease--sleeping sickness--and details the frantic effort to conquer it before it strikes agai… OL15440690W
Brain on fire Brain on fire Susannah Cahalan The book narrates Cahalan's issues with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and the process by which she was diagnosed with this form of encephalitis. She wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the eve… OL16599694W
Awakenings Awakenings Oliver Sacks,Jonathan Davis This is the extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive "awakening" effect th… OL1811911W
The perpetual now The perpetual now Michael D. Lemonick "In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual N… OL20046492W