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THE FORGETTING
Understanding Alzheimer’s:
A Biography of a Disease
DAVID SHENK
William Collins
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Published by Flamingo 2003
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
First published in the US by Doubleday 2001
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Source ISBN: 9780006532088
Ebook Edition © DECEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780007439669 Version: 2016-09-09
For Lucy
CONTENTS
3. The God Who Forgot and the Man Who Could Not
7. Fumbling for the Name of My Wife
9. National Institute of Alzheimer’s
10. Ten Thousand Feet, at Ten O’Clock at Night
13. We Hope to Radio Back to Earth Images of Beauty Never Seen
