{"product_id":"9780330523677-awakenings","title":"Awakenings","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Oliver Sacks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \/ softback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 448\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed 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.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39646925029573,"sku":"9780330523677","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/th_ed7062c8-2c6f-4121-a911-d4ff6e512f38.jpg?v=1619161041","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780330523677-awakenings","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}