Zooming Out on Dementia: The Effects of American Society on Brain Health

Abstract

Here is the brief review of this book: Read it. Now. Why should we be so emphatic? There are few books that have the potential to change paradigms, challenge entrenched social axioms and assumptions, and speak truth to authority. American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society, by Drs. Daniel George and Peter Whitehouse, does all those things and more. It is a call to action on a society-wide scale, pulling back the curtain on the creation of Alzheimer’s disease and revealing it to be just one manifestation of an overall political system that has embraced radical individualism in a return to a new gilded age. This book calls for our country and our world to reject self-centered, profit-driven values in a dramatic shift toward creating a society that is based on caring for one another, inclusivity, sharing of resources, and providing basic human needs. Using the analogy of...