EAN: 9781529087437

AWAKENINGS - OLIVER SACKS TASCHENBUCH

'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 . . .

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