Self, senility, and Alzheimer's disease in modern America
Subtitle: a history
By: Jesse F. Ballenger.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Alzheimer Disease -- history -- United States.; Attitude to Health -- United States.; Self Concept -- United States.; History, 20th Century -- United States.; History, 19th Century -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The stereotype of senility in late-nineteenth-century America; title: Beyond the characteristic plaques and tangles; title: From senility to successful aging; title: The renaissance of pathology; title: The health politics of anguish; title: The preservation of selfhood in the culture of dementia.