{"product_id":"9781529087437","title":"Awakenings","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Sacks, Oliver \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 20\/04\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 464 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529087437,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\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' – 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 by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRendered 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","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42780896821292,"sku":"9781529087437","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529087437.jpg?v=1759664990","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529087437","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}