Awakenings
Author(s): Oliver Sacks
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 Information
General Fields
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- : Bolinda Publishing
- : Audible/Bolinda Audio
- : 01 November 2016
- : Australia
- : 28 November 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Oliver Sacks
- : CD-Audio
- : Unabridged