Awakenings
DESCRIPTION :
'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 :
| ISBN : 9780330523677 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Sacks, Oliver | |
| PUBLISHER : Pan Macmillan | PUBLICATION DATE : May 10, 2012 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Picador |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : From 18 years |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 328 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
Health, Relationships & Personal development
Mathematics & Science
Medicine & Nursing