Awakenings
byOliver Sacks, Jonathan Davis
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' – GuardianHailed 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 . . .
Language
en
Published on
20/04/2023
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781529087437
Who is this book for? Readers interested in medical history, psychology, and personal stories of resilience.
Topics HealthSufferingHuman Condition
MoodReflective, Hopeful
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