{"product_id":"awakenings","title":"Awakenings","description":"\u003cb\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/b\u003e -- which inspired the major motion picture -- is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, \"awakening\" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.","brand":"Oliver Sacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46350612857068,"sku":"9780375704055","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780375704055.jpg?v=1744187346","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/awakenings","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}