The problem of Alzheimer's : how science, culture, and politics turned a rare disease into a crisis and what we can do about it, Jason Karlawish

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Label: The problem of Alzheimer's : how science, culture, and politics turned a rare disease into a crisis and what we can do about it, Jason Karlawish

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The problem of Alzheimer's : how science, culture, and politics turned a rare disease into a crisis and what we can do about it

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New York, St. Martin's Press, 2021

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents: A Peculiar Disease of the Cerebral Cortex -- No One Says 'No' to Len Kurland -- Accurate, but Not Presumptuous -- The Olympics of Pharmacokinetics -- The Republic of Alzheimer's Disease -- A Young Man in a Hurry -- How Do You Cast a Broken Brain? -- The Old Woman in the Tower -- Alois Alzheimer : An Unwitting Revolutionary -- Oblivion, or War and Madness -- The Essay Heard Round the World -- A Self-Help Group for the Self-Made Man -- A Crisis in the Family -- Last Casualties of the Cold War -- Hope in a Pill -- The Extraordinary Ordinary -- A Correction -- Discernment -- Somethings to Watch over Us -- Not (legally) Dead yet -- Targeting Amyloid -- Hope in a plan -- Something Must Be Working -- Existential Dread -- Caring for Each Other -- The Worlds We Create -- The Worlds We End

Dimensions: 21 cm

Edition: First edition.

Extent: 324 pages

Isbn: 9781250218735

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