Awakenings

''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 . . .

• | Author: Oliver Sacks
• | Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Apr 20, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781529087437
• | ISBN-10: 1529087430