Awakenings [electronic resource]
Sacks, Oliver2016
eAudioBook
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 20 patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all 20 had spent 40 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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[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda/Audible audio, 2016
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1 online resource (1 audio file)
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9781489068385
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English
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3996346