Awakenings

Awakenings

Author: Oliver Sacks
Paperback 448 Pages / Published: 2012-05-10
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Synopsis

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.

Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9780330523677
Number of pages: 448
Weight: 381 g
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