Passer au contenu
Awakenings
By: Oliver Sacks;
Language: English
Quality: Like New
Genre: History, Science,
ISBN: 9780330523677
SKU: BE500267920912
Pages: 408
Description: 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 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.
