Product Description
‘The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it’ Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it – until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber . . .
Product Details
Title: | Awakenings |
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Author: | Oliver Sacks |
Publisher: | Picador |
ISBN: | 9781529087437 |
SKU: | BK0481182 |
EAN: | 9781529087437 |
Number Of Pages: | 464 pages |
Language: | English |
Place of Publication: | United Kingdom |
Binding: | Paperback |
Release date: | 20 April 2023 |