The Alzheimer conundrum :entanglemen...
Lock, Margaret M.,

 

  • The Alzheimer conundrum :entanglements of dementia and aging /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 362.1968/31
    書名/作者: The Alzheimer conundrum : : entanglements of dementia and aging // Margaret Lock
    作者: Lock, Margaret M.,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : : illustrations
    標題: Alzheimer's disease - Age factors
    標題: Older people - Mental health
    標題: Brain - Aging
    ISBN: 9781400848461
    ISBN: 1400848466
    ISBN: 1299951163
    ISBN: 9781299951167
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index
    內容註: 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
    摘要、提要註: 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 the well- documented absence of behavioral signs of Alzheimer's disease in a significant proportion of elderly individuals, even when Alzheimer neuropathology is present in their brains. This incongruity makes it difficult to distinguish between what counts as normal versus pathological and, further, makes it evident that social and biological processes contribute inseparably to aging. Lock argues that basic research must continue, but it should be complemented by a realistic public health approach available everywhere that will be more effective and more humane than one focused almost exclusively on an increasingly frenzied search for a cure
    電子資源: http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/PUPB0002025.html
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