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 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. 'A brilliant and humane book' Observer 'Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. It is a work of genius' Washington Post

ISBN 0330320912   Pages 448 ISBN13 9780330320917 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 309 Publisher Pan Macmillan   Reprint date 31-Jan-2010 12:00:00 am Imprint Picador   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 197 Publication date 08 Mar 1991   Width (mm) 130 Non-book description 428   Spine width (mm) 29 DEWEY 616.832   Academic level General, Undergraduate DEWEY edition DC20

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