Concepts of Alzheimer Disease

Peter J. Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of neurology, psychiatry, neuroscience, psychology, nursing, organizational behavior, and biomedical ethics at the Fairhill Center for Aging, Case Western Reserve University, and a founding director of the Alzheimer Center at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. Konrad Maurer, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor in and head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, and director of the Clinic for Psychiatry, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Jesse F. Ballenger, Ph.D., is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University.

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Part I: The Cases of Auguste D. And Johann F.
Chapter 1. Auguste D.: The History of Alois Alzheimer's First Case
Chapter 2. Johann F.: The Historical Relevance of the Case for the Concept of Alzheimer Disease
Part II: From Alzheimer to the Present
Chapter 3. Neurofibrillary Changes: The Hallmark of Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 4. Contributions of German Neuroscience to the Concept of Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 5. Beyond the Characteristic Plaques and Tangles: Mid-Twentieth-Century U.S. Psychiatry and the Fight Against Senility
Chapter 6. The Rediscover of Alzheimer Disease During the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 7. The History of the Genetics of Alzheimer Disease
Part III: Alzheimer Disease as a Social and Cultural Entity
Chapter 8. Alzheimer Disease: Epistemological Lessons From History?
Chapter 9. Aging, Culture, and the Framing of Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 10. Narrative Practice and the Inner World of the Alzheimer Disease Experience
Part IV: Politics, Policy, and the Perspectives of the Caregiver and Patient
Chapter 11. The Role of the Concept of Alzheimer Disease in the Development of the Alzheimer's Association in the United States
Chapter 12. The History of the Alzheimer's Association: Future Public Policy Implications
Chapter 13. The Concept of Alzheimer Disease in a Hypercognitive Society
Part V: Progress and Its Problems
Chapter 14. Alzheimer Disease and the New Biology
Chapter 15. The Genetics of Alzheimer Disease: Some Future Implications
Chapter 16. History and the Future of Alzheimer Disease
Index