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Flunking Sainthood
“Still Alice” and the Specter of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s
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Jana Riess
This month my book club read Still Alice, neuroscientist Lisa Genova’s haunting novel about a Harvard cognitive science professor who discovers, at age 50 and the height of her career, that she is succumbing to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. My take on the book was that I learned a tremendous amount about the disease but that…
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