Forgetting Alzheimer's Portrait of an Epidemic

"By turns science popularization and cultural history, it's written for a general audience and narrated with a storyteller's urgency. His speculations about medical research sometimes wander into futurist, Wired magazine territory, but his quirky intellectual excitement adds to, rather than detracts from, the pathos of his story. In the end, like many great storytellers, he becomes part of the story himself. For what could be more tragically human than a human mind striving to comprehend the possibility of its own dissolution?"Shenk, David is the author of 'Forgetting Alzheimer's Portrait of an Epidemic', published 2003 under ISBN 9780385498388 and ISBN 0385498381.