Awakenings

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br> Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, <i>Awakenings</i> by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients.<br><br>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 . . .</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529087437

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 129 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan