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The very name Alzheimer is sure to bring a shudder. Thirty to forty million people are now afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, a degenerative brain disorder that strips its victims of their identity and leaves families bereft and social services strained. Despite considerable research, the underlying causes of Alzheimer's disease remain shrouded in mystery. So, too, does the man after whom it was named. Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) was practicing medicine at the Frankfurt Asylum in 1901 when he met a patient, who would become known as "Auguste D.," whose condition perplexed and intrigued him. Alzheimer is more than a biography; it is a story of scientific discovery at a crucial stage in the history of medical psychiatry.
Price: $75.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
02 July 2003
ISBN: 9780231118965
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
Alzheimer will be with us for many years, so it is fitting that this book, charming written and well documented... be translated and made widely available to tell us what he did, the milieu of his work, and how relevant it was and is to our predicament today.
Konrad Maurer is a neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychotherapist, and director of the Psychiatric University Clinic in Frankfurt. His wife and coauthor, Ulrike Maurer, has converted the house owned by E. Lilly where Alzheimer was born into a museum and conference center. They live in Frankfurt, Germany.
1. The Auguste D. File
2. Alois Alzheimer's Ancestors, Childhood and Youth
3. Student of Medicine
4. From Würzburg to Frankfurt
5. To Munich via Heidelberg
6. Breslau
7. Alzheimer's—the Career of a Disease