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Edited by Peter J. Whitehouse, Konrad Maurer, and Jesse F. Ballenger. 341 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. $55. ISBN 0-8018-6233-7.

The first sentence of this excellent book sums up both its content and the reason one should read it: "It is ironic that the professional and popular discourse surrounding Alzheimer disease (AD), whose most dreadful feature is the obliteration of memory, proceed with little awareness of its past." And if Santayana's often-quoted statement about those who cannot remember the past is true, what does this mean for studies of dementia? This book attempts to answer the question and does so very successfully.

The origin of this collection of essays was a 1997 symposium held to celebrate the life, legacy, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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