Self, senility, and Alzheimer's disease in modern America : a history / Jesse F. Ballenger.

  • Ballenger, Jesse F.
Date:
2006
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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Physical description

xvii, 236 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-229) and index.

Contents

The stereotype of senility in late-nineteenth-century America -- Beyond the characteristic plaques and tangles -- From senility to successful aging -- The renaissance of pathology -- The health politics of anguish -- The preservation of selfhood in the culture of dementia.

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    History of Medicine
    PVV.6.AA8-9
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  • 0801882761