Aging with Grace: The Nun Study and the science of old age, Fourth Estate,
£16.99, ISBN 1841152919
GIVE me your brain, please. Look, sister, you won’t need a brain when you’re
dead, so I’ll have it—OK? How do you go about asking someone if you can
have their brain? It’s hard when you’re a shy young epidemiologist struggling to
make a name for yourself in Alzheimer’s research. David Snowdon’s request in
1990 was made harder by the fact that his potential subjects were elderly
Catholic nuns, steeped in the doctrine of bodily resurrection.
But, the School Sisters of Notre…
