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The twenty-first book review of The Alzheimer Conundrum

Margaret Lock The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2013, US$23.22, ISBN: 978-0691149783

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Notes

  1. I included in my analysis: Altschuler (2013), Seaman (2013), van Someren (2013), Barley (2014), Bynum (2014), Fitzgerald (2014), Pierce (2014), Karlawish (2014), Kenny (2014), Mast and Shouse (2014), Tooke (2014), Corrie (2015), Gaines (2015), Mason (2015), McLean (2015), Moreira (2015), Palladino (2015), Russ (2015), Vardy (2015), George and Whitehouse (2016). For some of the media coverage, see also the links compiled at the end of Paul Mason’s blog entry about the book on Culture Matters: https://culturematters.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/a-stubborn-conundrum/.

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Keuck, L. The twenty-first book review of The Alzheimer Conundrum . BioSocieties 12, 176–181 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-017-0040-9

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