Awakenings (9780330523677)

'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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 448 pages
• Dimensions 130 x 197 x 27mm | 328g
• Publication date 10 May 2012
• Publisher Pan MacMillan
• Imprint PICADOR
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement New edition
• Illustrations note w. figs., photos on pl.
• ISBN10 0330523678
• ISBN13 9780330523677
• Bestsellers rank 293

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