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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 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.
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Awakenings, Oliver Sacks
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- 2012
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- Title
- Awakenings
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Oliver Sacks
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN10
- 0330523678
- ISBN13
- 9780330523677
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Health & Medicine, Psychological Topics, Psychology, Science, Medicine, Neuroscience
- Original title
- Awakenings
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- 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 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.