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Author Shenk, David, 1966-

Title The forgetting : Alzheimer's, portrait of an epidemic / David Shenk.

Imprint New York, NY : Doubleday, 2001.

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 Eureka Non-Fiction  616.831 She    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 290 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-280) and index.
Contents pt. I. Early stage. 1. I have lost myself -- 2. Bothered -- 3. The God who forgot and the man who could not -- 4. The race -- 5. Irrespective of age -- 6. A most loving brother -- pt. II. Middle stage. 7. Fumbling for the name of my wife -- 8. Back to birth -- 9. National Institute of Alzheimer's -- 10. Ten thousand feet, at ten o'clock at night -- 11. A world of Struldbruggs -- 12. Humanize the mouse -- 13. We hope to radio back to earth images of beauty never seen -- pt. III. End stage. 14. Breakthrough? -- 15. One thousand subtractions -- 16. Things to avoid -- 17. The mice are smarter.
Subject Alzheimer's disease.
ISBN 0385498373
9780385498371

 
    
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