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Pub. Date
2008
Description
Based on the true story of a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to awaken catatonic victims of a rare sleeping sickness. ; A deejay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Together they begin a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail.
103) Awakenings
Pub. Date
©1997
Description
Based on a true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he saves.
104) Awakenings
Pub. Date
1990
Description
A group of patients who contacted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I, are treated with a new drug L-DOPA which has an "awakening" effect on the patients and their lives.
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Tells how fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are diagnosed, the primary and secondary disabilities associated with FASD, and it's human cost. Addresses the in-utero effects of alcohol, including the facial, bodily, neurological, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics of FASD.
106) A walk to beautiful
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A look at the lives of three Ethiopian women, rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, who leave home in search of treatment for obstetric fistula. The program follows them as they walk for hours on their journey to find transportation to a special hospital in Addis Ababa where they find solace for the first time in years, and stays with them as their lives begin to change.
Author
Series
Perfect World volume 3
Pub. Date
2020-
Description
"26-year-old Tsugumi Kawana reunites with her first crush from high school, Itsuki Ayukawa, at a get-together between an architecture firm and the interior design company she works at. He sends her heart aflutter, until she realizes he's now disabled, and in a wheelchair. At first she feels she couldn't date a guy in a wheelchair, but then her feelings begin to change ..."--Publisher.