Awakenings(1998年Pan Books Ltd出版的圖書)

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'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 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 is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sicknes...(展開全部) '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 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 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. 'A brilliant and humane book' Observer 'Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. It is a work of genius' Washington Post 奧利弗?薩克斯傑出的神經病學專家、聞名全球的暢銷書作家。畢業於牛津大學皇后學院，目前為哥倫比亞大學臨床神經科教授。他的第一本書《睡人》一出版，便受到讀者熱捧，之後立刻被拍成風靡全球的電影。其後，他陸續出版了《覺醒》、《單腳站立》、《錯把妻子當帽子》、《火星上的人類學家》、《腦袋裡裝了2000齣歌劇的人》、《鎢舅舅——少年薩克斯的化學愛戀》、《色盲島》等書，被翻譯成近30種語言，暢銷全球，在全世界掀起狂熱的“薩克斯颶風”。薩克斯的書因獨特新穎的視角、驚世駭俗的觀念、曲折離奇的故事，以及深刻的人文關懷與感人至深的力量，屢屢被改編成電影和歌劇，風靡全世界。因其在文學和科學研究上的傑出貢獻，薩克斯榮膺霍桑登獎、喬治?波克獎，以及專門授予科學作家的劉易斯?托馬斯獎，也是古根漢學術獎獲得者，還被英國女王授予高級騎士勳章。

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