Awakenings By Oliver Sack
Awakenings By Oliver Sack
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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 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 spend 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.
Soft cover.