The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic

Forsideomslag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 20. maj 2003 - 304 sider
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A powerfully engaging, scrupulously researched, and deeply empathetic narrative of the history of Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects us, and the search for a cure.

Afflicting nearly half of all people over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americans a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones. It was once minimized and misunderstood as forgetfulness in the elderly, but Alzheimer’s is now at the forefront of many medical and scientific agendas, for as the world’s population ages, the disease will touch the lives of virtually everyone. David Shenk movingly captures the disease’s impact on its victims and their families, and he looks back through history, explaining how Alzheimer’s most likely afflicted such figures as Jonathan Swift, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Willem de Kooning. The result is a searing and graceful account of Alzheimer’s disease, offering a sobering, compassionate, and ultimately encouraging portrait.

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EARLY STAGE
7
Bothered
28
Fumbling for the Name of My Wife
106
Back to Birth
112
National Institute of Alzheimers
132
Ten Thousand Feet at Ten OClock at Night
152
A World of Struldbruggs
162
Humanize the Mouse
178
Breakthrough?
209
One Thousand Subtractions
216
Epilogue
253
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Om forfatteren (2003)

David Shenk is the nationally bestselling author of six books, including The Genius in All of UsThe Immortal GameThe Forgetting, and Data Smog. He has written for The New York TimesThe New YorkerThe AtlanticHarper’sNational GeographicSlate, NPR, and PBS, among others. He lives in Brooklyn.

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