Treating dementia
Subtitle: do we have a pill for it?
By: edited by Jesse F. Ballenger ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ballenger, Jesse F.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801893650
Subjects: Dementia -- Chemotherapy; Alzheimer Disease -- drug therapy; Alzheimer Vaccines -- economics; Alzheimer Vaccines -- therapeutic use; Drug Discovery -- ethics; Marketing -- ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The classification of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment : enriching therapeutic models through moral imagination / Danny George and Peter J. Whitehouse; title: Notes toward a future history of treatments for cognitive failure / David Healy; title: Alzheimer's disease : pathogenesis, models, and experimental therapeutics / Donald L. Price ... [et al.]; title: From the periphery to the center : treating noncognitive, especially behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia / Annette Leibing; title: Pharmacologic treatment of dementia : a clinician's view / Alan A. Anderson; title: Managing Dad / Judith Levine; title: Making sense of the language of benefit for Alzheimer's disease treatments / Jason Karlawish; title: Science and marketing : the promotion of donepezil in the primary research literature / John R. Gilstad and Thomas E. Finucane; title: Profiling drugs and diseases : the shaping, making, and marketing of drugs for Alzheimer's disease / Rein Vos; title: Can we fix this with a pill? : qualities of life and the aging brain / Peter J. Whitehouse; title: Necessary inventions : antidementia drugs and heightened expectations for aging in modern American culture and society / Jesse F. Ballenger; title: Truth and hope in drug development and evaluation in Alzheimer's disease / Tiago Moreira; title: ApoE genotyping, risk estimates, and public understanding of susceptibility genes / Margaret Lock and Adam Hedgecoe; title: Developing drugs for dementia : hope, hype, and hypocrisy / Peter V. Rabins.