Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Awakenings by Oliver Sacks The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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 - GuardianHailed 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 . . . Author Biography Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queens College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Franciscos Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings.Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as the poet laureate of medicine, and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015. Review A brilliant and humane book. * Observer *It makes you aware of what a knife edge we live on. -- Doris LessingNot 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 * Promotional The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. Details ISBN1529087430 Author Oliver Sacks Publisher Pan Macmillan Series Picador Collection Year 2023 ISBN-10 1529087430 ISBN-13 9781529087437 Format Paperback Imprint Picador Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2023-04-20 UK Release Date 2023-04-20 Pages 464 Audience Age 18 DEWEY 616.83209 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-09-25 NZ Release Date 2023-09-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:141789036;
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