{"product_id":"awakenings-picador-collection","title":"Awakenings","description":"\u003cp\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' – Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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":"TDLC Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46836954104031,"sku":"9781529087437","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781529087437.jpg?v=1744073754","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/awakenings-picador-collection","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}