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BrainStorm

April 4, 2023

Rebecca Chopp, Ph.D., and Her Unexpected Alzheimer’s Diagnosis (part 2)

About This Episode

Rebecca Chopp, Ph.D., built a life around a profession that prized the mind and then was unexpectedly diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Chopp, former Chancellor of the University of Denver, President of Swarthmore College and Colgate University, and Dean and Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School, talks with Meryl Comer about the role of spirituality and emancipatory transformation in managing life through the prism of her early onset of Alzheimer’s disease. 

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