Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

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Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

€5.00
MSRP: €12.50
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ISBN:
9780330523677
Author:
Oliver Sacks
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Publication Date:
2011
Format:
Paperback

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 Oliv…

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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 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...

'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.

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