{"product_id":"awakenings-oliver-sacks","title":"Awakenings; Oliver Sacks","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Secret Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31801744228422,"sku":"526","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/8921\/4278\/products\/Awakenings_OliverSacks.jpg?v=1591266209","url":"https:\/\/www.thesecretbookstore.live\/products\/awakenings-oliver-sacks","provider":"The Secret Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}