The Alzheimer Conundrum : : Entanglements of Dementia and Aging / / Margaret Lock.
Due to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim. Despite billions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 12 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Orientations
- Chapter 1. Making And Remaking Alzheimer Disease
- Chapter 2. Striving to Standardize Alzheimer Disease
- Chapter 3. Paths to Alzheimer Prevention
- Chapter 4. Embodied Risk Made Visible
- Chapter 5. Alzheimer Genes: Biomarkers of Prediction and Prevention
- Chapter 6. Genome- Wide Association Studies: Back to the Future
- Chapter 7. Living with Embodied Omens
- Chapter 8. Chance Untamed and the Return of Fate
- Chapter 9. Transcending Entrenched Tensions
- Afterword. Portraits from the Mind
- Notes
- Index