'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 . . .
| ISBN: | 9781529087437 |
| Publication date: | 20th April 2023 |
| Author: | Oliver Sacks |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 448 pages |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Genres: |
Literary essays Neurosciences Popular psychology Neurology and clinical neurophysiology |
'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 . . .
Awakenings features in the following genres: Literary essays, Neurosciences, Popular psychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology
Awakenings is available in Paperback, Ebook
Awakenings was written by Oliver Sacks and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Awakenings has 448 pages
Yes it is part of Picador Collection series
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