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Awakenings
[Paperback - 2012]
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Category: Psychology
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Publisher: Picador Uk | ISBN: 9781529087437 | Pages: 438
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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 by Oliver Sacks 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 . . .

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Oliver Sacks was born in London in 1933 into a family of physicians and scientists, and studied medicine at Oxford University. He moved to New York in 1965, where he began to work as a consultant for the Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, a chronic care hospital. Later in his career he became as a professor of neurology at Columbia University and at NYU. His first book, Migraine, was published in 1970; his last, Gratitude, in 2015, shortly after his death. Other books include Awakenings (1973), An Anthropologist on Mars (1995) and The Mind s Eye (2010). He received honours from, amongst others, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Art and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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