The Alzheimer conundrum : entanglements of dementia and aging /

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Based on a careful study of the history of Alzheimer's disease and extensive in-depth interviews with clinicians, scientists, epidemiologists, geneticists, and others, Margaret Lock highlights the limitations and the dissent implicated in this approach. She stresses that one major difficulty is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lock, Margaret M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Alter, ...
Alzheimer's disease > Age factors.
Older people > Mental health.
Brain > Aging > Molecular aspects.
Age factors in disease.
Risk assessment.
Aging.
Alzheimer's disease.
Age Factors
Aging > physiology
Alzheimer Disease > diagnosis
Alzheimer Disease > epidemiology
Brain > physiology
Risk Assessment
Aging
Alzheimer Disease
Maladie d'Alzheimer > Facteurs liés à l'âge.
Personnes âgées > Santé mentale.
Cerveau > Vieillissement > Aspect moléculaire.
Maladies > Facteurs liés à l'âge.
Évaluation du risque.
Vieillissement.
Maladie d'Alzheimer.
risk assessment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
MEDICAL > General.
Biomedizin
Gerontologie
Demenz
Alzheimerkrankheit
Neuropathologie
Diagnose
Amyloidose
Humangenetik
Alzheimers sjukdom.
Demens.
Äldre.
Åldrande.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Making and remaking Alzheimer disease
  • Striving to standardize Alzheimer disease
  • Paths to Alzheimer prevention
  • Embodied risk made visible
  • Alzheimer genes: biomarkers of prediction and prevention
  • Genome-wide association studies: back to the future
  • Living with embodied omens
  • Chance untamed and the return of fate
  • Transcending entrenched tensions
  • Portraits from the mind.

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