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Awakenings

By Oliver Sacks

Awakenings

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'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
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
464
Release Date:
2023-04-20
Publication Date:
2023-05-18
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1529087430
ISBN13:
9781529087437
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
371 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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