{"product_id":"9781529087437","title":"Awakenings","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Sacks, Oliver \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eTrue stories\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 20 April 2023 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of the Picador Collection series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 464 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 31 | 368g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 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":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40949473181831,"sku":"9781529087437","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781529087437_089a6b5d-1abe-4a7c-a361-f99f6b81e6f2.jpg?v=1741632198","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781529087437","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}