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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
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- Année de publication
- 1991
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- Titre
- Awakenings
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Oliver Sacks
- Éditeur
- Pan Macmillan
- Publié
- 1991
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN10
- 0330320912
- ISBN13
- 9780330320917
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Thème historique, Histoire, Santé & Médecine, Thèmes psychologiques, Psychologie, Science, Médecine, Neurosciences
- Titre original
- Awakenings
- Évaluation
- 4,1 sur 5
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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