'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 code: 9781529087437
| ISBN |
9781529087437 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H196xW131xS30 |
| Series |
Picador Collection |
| No. Of Pages |
464 |
| Publisher |
Pan Macmillan |
| On Sale Date |
20/04/2023 |