Ethics Case Study Alice Howland

Otherwise healthy, Columbia’s respected Linguistics professor Alice Howland is a 50-year-old mother of three, an accomplished scholar and a tragic victim of early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Only after a deceptively innocent slip of the tongue, a short-term memory loss during a lecture and a disorientation attack inside the campus, it becomes clear enough to Alice’s doctor that she is indeed suffering from this hereditary disease.
To make matters worse, as if things weren’t bad enough, inevitably, as Alice slowly drowns inside her own mind, not only will she cease to recognise her beloved children, but she may also be the one who could pass the condition on them.
Eventually, as Alice’s personal tragedy gradually unfolds, she will feel more often anxious,