Title The Alzheimer conundrum : entanglements of dementia and aging / Margaret Lock

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations Contents Making and remaking Alzheimer disease -- Striving to standardize Alzheimer disease -- Paths to Alzheimer prevention -- Embodied risk made visible -- Alzheimer genes: biomarkers of prediction and prevention -- Genome-wide association studies: back to the future -- Living with embodied omens -- Chance untamed and the return of fate -- Transcending entrenched tensions -- Portraits from the mind Summary Based on a careful study of the history of Alzheimer's disease and extensive in-depth interviews with clinicians, scientists, epidemiologists, geneticists, and others, Margaret Lock highlights the limitations and the dissent implicated in this approach. She stresses that one major difficulty is the well-documented absence of behavioral signs of Alzheimer's disease in a significant proportion of elderly individuals, even when Alzheimer neuropathology is present in their brains. This incongruity makes it difficult to distinguish between what counts as normal versus pathological and, further, makes it evident that social and biological processes contribute inseparably to aging. Lock argues that basic research must continue, but it should be complemented by a realistic public health approach available everywhere that will be more effective and more humane than one focused almost exclusively on an increasingly frenzied search for a cure Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Alter, ... gnd Subject Alzheimer's disease -- Age factors Older people -- Mental health. Brain -- Aging -- Molecular aspects Age factors in disease. Risk assessment. Aging. Alzheimer's disease. Age Factors Aging -- physiology Alzheimer Disease -- diagnosis Alzheimer Disease -- epidemiology Brain -- physiology Risk Assessment Aging Alzheimer Disease risk assessment. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. MEDICAL -- General. Risk assessment Alzheimer's disease Aging Age factors in disease Alzheimer's disease -- Age factors Brain -- Aging -- Molecular aspects Older people -- Mental health Biomedizin Gerontologie Demenz Alzheimerkrankheit Neuropathologie Diagnose Amyloidose Humangenetik Alzheimers sjukdom. Demens. Äldre. Åldrande. Form Electronic book LC no. 2013011850 ISBN 9781400848461 1400848466 1299951163 9781299951167

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