To write Still Alice, Genova read every book she could find on Alzheimer's and interviewed neurologists (one of whom she shadowed for two days at the Massachusetts General Hospital Memory Disorders Unit), general practice physicians, research scientists, genetics counselors, and social workers. Last summer-nine years after finishing her Ph.D.-Genova published Still Alice, in which she tells the story of a fictional 50-year-old Harvard professor who develops early onset Alzheimer disease. "That's what I hope to do with my writing, both fiction and non." "That's everything right there," Genova, 37, said of the quote from Sacks's book, which propelled her toward a doctorate in neuroscience. Within the pages of this bestseller she had read as an undergraduate, Lisa Genova found something more profound than a set of intriguing neurological case histories. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life."-Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Still Alice Book Cover"In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. How would you like to share? Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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