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  • Baby boomers: All the well known health icons are very religious, aren\'t they?  Makes sense I guess.

    Alzheimers was identified as a syndrome at the start of the 20th century but fell out of favour.  It was revived when baby boomers kept insisting something was wrong with their Dad.

    There was a fantastic essay on the placebo effect on the LRB a while ago, Scrivener\'s Palsy , your book reminds me of that.