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Awakenings

Pocket
Engelsk
Picador Collection
Awakenings
Awakenings
  • Forfatter: Oliver Sacks
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 464
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Picador Collection
  • EAN: 9781529087437
  • Utgivelsesår: 2023
  • Bidragsyter: Sacks, Oliver
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<p><b>'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' – <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br> Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, <i>Awakenings</i> by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients.<br><br>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 . . .</p>