The Forgetting

The Forgetting

Understanding Alzheimer's : a Biography of a Disease

by David Shenk

290 pages· 2003· ISBN 9780006532088
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In this scrupulously researched, multilayered account, the author explores treatments for Alzheimer's, but also looks back through history, showing how the disease most likely afflicted such figures as Jonathan Swift, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Willem de Kooning. "A graceful, masterful portrait of an illness."--"Los Angeles Times."

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