{"product_id":"oliver-sacks-awakenings-9781529087437","title":"Awakenings","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 . . .","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53756803416406,"sku":"9781529087437-V","price":8.47,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/oliver-sacks-awakenings-9781529087437","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}