| Record Number |
760138 |
| ISBN |
9781489366092 |
| Author |
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 author. |
| Title |
Awakenings / Oliver Sacks ; read by Oliver Sacks and Jonathan Davis. |
| Edition |
MP3 edition ; Unabridged. |
| Publisher/Date |
Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2016] |
| ℗2013 |
| Pagination etc. |
1 audio disc (MP3 CD) (13 hr., 9 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container. |
| Performer note |
Read by Jonathan Davis and Oliver Sacks. |
| Summary Note |
Hailed 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. |
| Subject |
Dopa -- Therapeutic use -- Case studies |
| Epidemic encephalitis -- Complications -- Case studies |
| Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease -- Case studies |
| Audiobooks. |
| Added Author |
Davis, Jonathan, (Narrator) narrator. |
| Shelf Location |
CD 616.832 SACK |
