Awakenings
By Oliver Sacks
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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 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780330523677
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 464
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Pan Macmillan
- Imprint:
- Picador
- Weight:
- 328 g