{"product_id":"awakenings","title":"Awakenings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it'' – \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRendered 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57310045569406,"sku":"NW9781529087437","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529087437.jpg?v=1778576904","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/awakenings","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}