Awakenings
Author(s): Oliver Sacks
'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 . . .
General Information
- :
- : Pan Macmillan
- : Picador
- : 0.3
- : 28 February 2023
- : 3 Centimeters X 13.1 Centimeters X 19.6 Centimeters
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Oliver Sacks
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 616.83209
- : 464
- : BT