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.
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