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‘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 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. It is a work of genius’ Washington Post
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Awakenings, Oliver Sacks
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1991
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- Titolo
- Awakenings
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Oliver Sacks
- Editore
- Pan Macmillan
- Pubblicato
- 1991
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 448
- ISBN10
- 0330320912
- ISBN13
- 9780330320917
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Storia, Salute & Medicina, Temi psicologici, Psicologia, Scienza, Medicina, Neuroscienze
- Titolo originale
- Awakenings
- Valutazione
- 4,1 su 5
- Descrizione
- ‘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 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. It is a work of genius’ Washington Post