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The Forgetting by David Shenk

Winner of the 2002 BMA Popular Medicine Book Prize: This is a haunting literary and scientific examination of Alzheimers disease and the race to find a cure.

‘The Forgetting is completely absorbing, fascinating, the best of writing, thought-provoking, socially important and imperative to read, with the narrative pull of a well-written murder mystery’ Amy Tan

‘It’s not only great science writing – it takes a terrifying disease that will affect us all, directly or indirectly, as we grow older, and gives it a meaning and a human face.’ Mark Haddon, Books of the Year, Guardian

‘Lucid and often moving…Shenk is a wonderful writer on science. His prose zings along.’ Independent

‘A startling book, a mixture of history, science, politics and compelling case studies’ Daily Telegraph

David Shenk is the author of Data Smog and a book of essays entitled The End of Patience. He has written for many American newspapers and journals. Shenk was a 1995-1996 Freedom Forum Fellow and a 1998 US-Japan Fellow. He lives in Brooklyn.

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ISBN 13 9780006532088
ISBN 10 000653208X
Title The Forgetting
Author David Shenk
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 2003-01-06
Number of pages 304
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