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Robin Pierce (Senior Law and Ethics Associate)
The Lancet: Neurology
Vol. 13, Issue 5, May 2014

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Conundrum presents an intriguing picture of the state of Alzheimer's research and its abundant uncertainties. Through a series of interviews, observations, and informal conversations, medical anthropologist, Margaret Lock traverses the worlds of the laboratory, clinic, and lay public to produce a timely and insightful examination of the research effort aimed at one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. But even this characterisation presents a conundrum, as Lock asserts that the entanglement of Alzheimer's disease and ageing has not been adequately addressed and questions whether disentanglement is even possible. Her message is partly that although the existence of an underlying neuropathological change is not in dispute, little can be said with certainty about what this finding means or what we should do about it. [...]

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