ࡱ> FHE @-bjbjWW 4D55@%88,4~$d #Z##8:),~IU N0~_Rp#p#p#8##~p#8 X: Awakenings To start at the real beginning of the story, you have to go back to the years during and immediately following World War I, when an illness called encephalitis lethargica swept across Europe and America. The main symptom of this sleeping sickness was a comatose state that could last for months or even years. If the patients did eventually wake up (the majority simply died during the acute phase), they were likely to find themselves in the distorted condition of extreme Parkinson's patients, with rigidly twisted limbs, little or no mobility and a strangely suspended or intermittent relationship to time. Millions of people developed this illness in the years between 1916 and 1926, and the tens of thousands of disabled survivors, many of them vital young people who had been struck down in their teens and 20's, were eventually warehoused in chronic-care facilities from one decade to the next, treated as the living dead -- though the nurses who fed them and kept them clean would often insist that there were real, full, intelligent personalities alive behind those frozen masks. Enter, in 1967, Dr. Oliver Sacks. London-born, the child of two physicians, he got his medical training at Oxford and then came to America -- first to San Francisco and then to New York -- to pursue neurological research. His research took him to Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx -- or, as he calls it in ''Awakenings,'' ''Mount Carmel'' -- where he was struck by the figures of post-encephalitic patients, frozen in their odd postures and parked in wheelchairs around the hospital. Dr. Sacks believed the nurses who said that there were vital sensibilities alive inside those statues, and he gathered the sleeping-sickness victims (many of whom had been virtually ignored for 40 years) into a community within the larger hospital. Eventually, after much internal and some external debate, he began to give them a new wonder-drug, L-dopa, that had proved remarkably effective in treating regular Parkinson's patients. The course of the drug treatment -- its initial astonishing success, which brought these patients back to life, and its subsequent horrifying failure -- forms the basis of ''Awakenings,'' which Dr. Sacks published in 1973. In 1990, the book was made into a film starring Robin Williams and Robert Deniro. (adapted from the New York Times article dated 1/21/01 by Wendy Lesser) Awakenings Choose and answer at least 15 of the questions (including # 23) Describe the symptoms Leonard experiences in childhood as well as adulthood. How do we know that the catatonic patients are in there in a morally relevant sense? What various stimuli make these patients react? (i.e., what reaches them?) 4 . . Think back to the following conversation between Dr. Sayer and the elderly Dr. Ingham as they watch historical film footage featuring some of the survivors of the Encephalitis epidemic of the 1920s and 1930s Dr. Ingham: I began to see them in the early 1930sI referred them to psychiatrists. Before long they were being referred back to me. They could no longer dress themselves or feed themselves. They could no longer speak in most cases. Families went mad. People who were normal, were nowelsewhere. Dr. Sayer: What must it be like to be them? What are they thinking? Dr. Ingham: Theyre not. The virus didnt spare the higher faculties. Dr. Sayer: We know that for a fact? Dr. Ingham: Yes. Dr. Sayer: Because.? Dr. Ingham: Because the alternative is unthinkable. What did Dr. Ingham mean by his last comment? How should we think about persons in catatonic states? How do we determine whether or not they are able to even register our attempts at communication? What do we owe to persons in such a state in terms of their rights to care? What if people require artificial life supports to continue living? Who decides if and how and under what circumstances to continue or not to continue providing care for them? Think back to the following conversation between Dr. Sayer and Mrs. Lowe (Leonards mother): Dr. Sayer: Does he ever speak to you? Mrs. Lowe: Of course not. Not in words. Dr. Sayer: He speaks to you in other ways. How do you mean? Mrs. Lowe: You dont have children. Sayer: No, Mrs. Lowe: If you did youd know. What does Mrs. Lowe understand about Leonard that Dr. Sayer does not at this point? Persons with developmental disabilities sometimes are not able to speak or vocalize their wants, needs,thoughts, etc. in conventional ways. However, they may just have different ways of communicating, and those who know and care for them are often able to interpret their expressed and sometimes unexpressed behavior. What evidence do we see of this in the film? How might we work to re-see the capacities of persons with mental disabilities in our culture? When Leonard becomes more assertive, and almost volatile his mother accuses Dr. Sayer saying: I dont know who that is up there. I dont think he knows. (to Sayer) Youve turned Leonard into something he is not. Is this true? Has Dr. Sayer done Leonard a disservice? Is Leonards mother right to expect that her son not be the person he is on L-dopa? How changed is Leonard? When Leonard is prevented from going for a walk on his own, is his outrage justified? He argues (reminiscent of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST) that the doctors and society in general are sick for locking him and his fellow patients away from general society out of fear of what they represent. Is there merit to this claim and Leonards further speech that: It isn't us that are defective, it's them. We're not in crisis, they are. We've been through the worst that can happen to a person and survived it. They haven't. They fear it. And they hide from their fear by hiding us, because they know, they know Because we remind them that theres a problem that they dont have an answer to. Were not the problem, they are the problem. . Is it even ethical to perform experimental drug tests on these patients before conducting tests on animal models or some other kind of models for testing? At one point, Robin Williams' character sneaks into the lab to secretly triple the dosage given to Leonard of the experimental medicine. This seems morally acceptable because it worked -- it 'awoke' Leonard -- but does this success justify both the risk and the deception? 10.. How would you want to be treated if you were in Leonard's position? Would you want someone to decide on your behalf to conduct experiments on you? If so, under what restrictions: for example, would it be necessary that you yourself might benefit from the experimental treatment? What if it didnt help you, but might help others in the future? 11. Whose safety is at risk if Leonard were to have been allowed to go for a walk on his own? At that point in his recovery, was Leonard capable enough to make decisions for himself? What authority do his doctors have over whether or not he should be prohibited from leaving the institution on his own? Should Dr. Sayer have fought harder to let Leonard have his walks, or at least should he have been up front with Leonard before meeting with the committee that he would not be supporting Leonard's petition? 12. When Dr. Kaufman asks Leonard what difference it makes if he is able to go for a walk all alone or presumably with an accompanying staff from the clinic, Leonard responds by saying: It makes all the difference.You didnt wake a thing, you woke a person. Im a person. What does Leonard mean by this? What is it about being a person that includes being autonomousbeing ones own person, so to speak? How is this different from just being a thing? What happens when we treat persons as things? 13. Why is it a compliment when Paula remarks with astonishment to Leonard: Youre a patient? You dont look like a patient. One can feel empathy for Leonard in this situation. Why? 14. Though it seems an act of compassion to seek such awakenings, is this really a compassionate thing to do to patients even if the awakenings occur for only limited periods of time? There was a great deal of anguish, both for the patient and his or her caregivers, when the effects of the L-Dopa wore off and Leonard declined back to his initial state. Was this suffering worth the brief happiness associated with the period of 'full' awakening? 15. If you knew that the treatment was only temporary, would you want to be awakened at all? 16. What do you make of Leonards speech when he states to Dr. Sayer: Read a newspaper, people have forgotten what life is all about. They've forgotten what it is to be alive. They need to be reminded. They need to be reminded what they have, what they can lose, what I feel, this 17. Why does the poem, The Panther, have special significance for Lenny? 18. What are the various psychological reactions the patients have to their awakenings? 19. What Parkinson-like symptoms does Lenny exhibit when he develops tolerance to LDopa and starts to regress? 20. What ethical questions are raised in this movie regarding treatment? What is your opinion? 21. What is the second awakening Dr. Sayer refers to at the end of the movie? What does he learn about life from Leonard? 22. Imagine you suddenly went into a catatonic state and woke up 30 years from now. How do you think you would feel? Why? What would you have to learn (or in some cases relearn) about life? 23. What did and didnt you like about this film? 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