{"product_id":"awakenings","title":"Oliver Sacks: Awakenings [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e`The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' \u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays, and various TV documentaries, \u003ci\u003e Awakenings\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `A brilliant and humane book' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. It is a work of genius' \u003ci\u003e Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sacks, Oliver","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49292843417939,"sku":"9780330320917","price":12.84,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47367728890195,"sku":"XV80330320917","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/sacks-oliver-oliver-sacks-awakenings-2010-paperback-58545681563987.jpg?v=1726841646","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/awakenings","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}