{"product_id":"sacks-awakenings","title":"Sacks: Awakenings","description":"'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  'It makes you aware of what a knife edge we live on' Doris Lessing","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":32908528418901,"sku":"9780330523677N","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9780330523677.jpg?v=1606396904","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/sacks-awakenings","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}