Awakenings

Author(s) : Oliver Sacks

Awakenings

Book Details

  • Publisher : Picador
  • Published : 1991
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 448
  • Category :
    Popular Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 14756
  • ISBN 13 : 9780330523677
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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.

About the Author(s)

Oliver Sacks was educated in London, Oxford, California and New York. He is a professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings.

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