{"product_id":"awakenings","title":"Awakenings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nPublished: in UK in 2012\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Pan Macmillan\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 448\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN 13: 9780330523677\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN 10: 0330523678\u003cbr\u003e\nEdition: New ed\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oliver Sacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32777770664039,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/0330523678.jpg?v=1598342164","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/awakenings","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}