Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Celebrates the life and legacy of Alois Alzheimer with 16 papers from a November 1997 symposium in his birth place, Marktbreti, Germany. Most of the contributors are Germany, but other European countries and the US are also represented. They discuss his discovery of the mental disease in 1907 and the subsequent development of thinking about it. The goal is to dispel some of the loss of collective memory about the history of the disease.
Synopsis
As the essays in this volume show, conceptualizing dementia has always been a complex process. With contributions from noted professionals in psychiatry, neurology, molecular biology, sociology, history, ethics, and health policy, Concepts of Alzheimer Disease looks at the ways in which Alzheimer disease has been defined in various historical and cultural contexts.
The book covers every major development in the field, from the first case described by Alois Alzheimer in 1907 through groundbreaking work on the genetics of the disease. Essays examine not only the prominent role that biomedical and clinical researchers have played in defining Alzheimer disease, but also the ways in which the perspectives of patients, their caregivers, and the broader public have shaped concepts.