WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/2641640

The forgetting Alzheimer's - a portrait of an epidemic

Afflicting nearly half of all persons over the age of 85, Alzheimer's disease kills nearly 100,000 Americas 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 kill millions more and touch the lives of virtually everyone. The Forgetting is a scrupulously researched, multilayered analysis of Alzheimer's and its social, medical, and spiritual implications. David Shenk presents us with much more than a detailed explanation of its causes and effects and the search for a cure. He 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 William de Kooning. The result is a searing, powerfully engaging account of Alzheimer's disease, offering a grim but sympathetic and ultimately encouraging portrait. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

alternateName

http://schema.org/alternateName

  • "Alzheimers : portrait of an epidemic"@en
  • "Enfermedad degenerativa que llega a destruir la propia identidad"@es

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "Afflicting nearly half of all persons over the age of 85, Alzheimer's disease kills nearly 100,000 Americas 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 kill millions more and touch the lives of virtually everyone. The Forgetting is a scrupulously researched, multilayered analysis of Alzheimer's and its social, medical, and spiritual implications. David Shenk presents us with much more than a detailed explanation of its causes and effects and the search for a cure. He 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 William de Kooning. The result is a searing, powerfully engaging account of Alzheimer's disease, offering a grim but sympathetic and ultimately encouraging portrait. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "The process of how Alzheimer's disease develops, its effect on the family, evidence of the illness in historic figures, how it has been traditionally understood and depicted, the history of its study, and the current race to find a cure are the central themes of the book."@en
  • "Examines the history of Alzheimer's, exploring the nature of the disease which slowly robs people of their memories and eventually their lives, and looking at the experiences of some Alzheimer's victims."@en
  • "Shenk studies the social, medical, and spiritual implications of this devastating disease, which appears to be increasingly robbing the elderly of their memories and straining the lives of loved ones. He studies the early, middle, and late stages, including how they are dealt with in different societies and drawing on historical and contemporary case studies of suspected disease."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Popular works"@en
  • "Popular works"

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "The forgetting Alzheimer's - a portrait of an epidemic"@en
  • "The forgetting : Alzheimer's: portrait of an epidemic"@en
  • "The forgetting : Alzheimer's: portrait of an epidemic"
  • "The forgetting"
  • "The forgetting understanding Alzheimer's : a biography of a disease"@en
  • "The forgetting Alzheimer's : portrait of an epidemic"
  • "The forgetting Alzheimer's, portrait of an epidemic"@en
  • "The forgetting Alzheimer's, portrait of an epidemic"
  • "El alzheimer"@es
  • "El alzheimer"
  • "The forgetting : understanding Alzheimer's : a biography of a disease"
  • "The forgetting : understanding Alzheimer's : a biography of a disease"@en
  • "The forgetting : understanding Alzheimer's: a biography of a disease"
  • "The forgetting : alzheimer's portrait of an epidemic"
  • "Das Vergessen : Alzheimer ; Porträt einer Epidemie"
  • "The forgetting : Alzheimer's, portrait of an epidemic"
  • "The forgetting : Alzheimer's, portrait of an epidemic"@en

workExample